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POEMS 

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UNITED STATES HISTORY 

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Copyrighted According to Act of Congress, 
With the Librarian of Congress, 

By W. G. Ewing, A. D. 1880. 



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PREFACE. 



In our volume, though small in size, we 
have endeavored 1o give the dates of all the 
principal events connected with the history of 
the United States. We find a great deficiency 
in historical knowledge in our schools. The 
reason of this is, that dates and proper names 
are hard to commit to memory. It is known 
to all, how much more easily poetry is memo- 
rized than prose. Our object is to give a de- 
tail of the discoveries and colonization, and the 
leading men engaged in them To give the 
causes of the different wars ; of battles ; to tell 
who commanded on each side : to give the 
number of men lost by each, and the number 
engaged. Of Presidents, to give a biographic- 
al sketch of each, and to date the death of ma- 
ny of the greatest of our statesmen In our 
book we have tried to avoid all partisan views. 

W. G. E. 



CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER I— Voyages and discoveries of Columbus. 
CHAPTER II— Discoveries of John and Sebastian 

Cabot, Americus Vespucius, Ponce I)c Leon 

and Balboa, 
CHAPTER III— De Ayllon, Cortez, Magellan, De 

Narvaez, Pizarro, and Verrazani and Carticr, 
CHAPTER IV— De Soto, Roberval, Huguenots, Me- 

lendez, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, 
CHAPTER V— Gosnold, Weymouth, Pring, John 

Smith — Settlement of Virginia, 
CHAPTER VI— Virginia continued, Delaware, Dale. 

Powhattan and Pocahontas, 
CHAPTER VII— Dutch discoveries 



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CHAPTER VIII— James I., of England, Charles on 

the throne, Virginia in 1660, - 9 

CHAPTER IX— Settlement of N. Y., Holland's grant 

to Dutch Co., Manhattan bought for $24, - 11 

CHAPTER X— James I., of England, makes a grant, 

Slaves, Puritans, Settlement of Mass. by Eng., 12 

CHAPTER XI— Indian war in Virginia, English 

giant to Gorges and Mason, - 12 

CHAPTER XII— 1572, Drake, of England, - 14 

CHAPTER XIII— English settlement at Massachu- 
setts Bay, Endicott, Winthrop, Roger Williams, 
Rhode Island, - - - 14 

CHAPTER XIV— Progress of New York, settlement 

ol Delaware, - - 17 

CHAPTER XV— Settlement of Maryland— Clayborne, 18 

CHAPTER XVI— Settlement of Conn., first by Dutch 

and then by English, Roger Williams, - . 20 

CHAPTER XVII— Union of New England colonies, 

Archbishop Laud's commission, - 22 

CHAPTER XVIII— King Phillips War, 23 

CHAPTER XIX— Navigation Act, Bacon's rebellion, 

Berkley, James Towburnt, Culpepper, Va., - 25 

CHAPTER XX— Settlement of Carolina, 26 

CHAPTER XXI— Settlement of Pa. by Wm. Penn, 
Philadelphia, The Quakers, Penn's treaty with 
the Indians, - 28 



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CHAPTER XXII— Union of Indian Tribes, Jesuits, 

Allenez, Marquette, Joliet, La Salle. 30 

CHAPTHR XXIII— New York becomes an English 

Province, War between England and Holland. 31 

CHAPTER XXIV— James II becomes King, Andros 
is made Governor of Conn. Its Charter hid in 
an oak, Gov. Phipps 34 

CHAPTER XXV— 33 

CHAPTER XXVI— King William's War 36 

Witch Delusion 4 - 37 

CHAPTER XXVII— Fall of lames II of England, 

Leisler, Win. Kidd. H9 

CHAPTER XXVIII— S, C- to 1700. 40 

CHAPTER XXIX— French Settlement on He- 
Mississippi, Chickasaw War, I) 1 Iberville, 
D'Artaguette. - - 41 

CHAPTER XXX— Queen Ann's War, Carolina's 
Expedition, Deertield, Mass. Burned 1704 
Quebec. - - 4'! 

CHAPTER XXXI— Georgia Settlement in 1738, 
Wesleys. Whitfield, Oglethorpe Fights the 
Spaniards at St. Augustine. 44 

CHAPTER XXXII— King George's, The English 
take Louisburg, Treaty of Aix La < hapelle 
ends the War- - 46 

CHAPTER XXXIII— French and Indian War. - 47 



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CHAPTER XXXIV- The War commenced - 48 

Brad dock's Defeat, 50. Preparations for a 
Campaign 50; The War Declared, 52; Lord 
Loudoun, 52; Capture of Loiusburgh, 54; 
Provincial, Gen. Forbes, Washington, 54; 
Frence Governor, Qirebec Canada, Wolfe at- 
tacks Quebec, 50; Amherst's operations, 
Trouble with the i 'herokees, The War ends, 
57; Pontiac's War 1763. 58 

CHAPTER XXXV— Advancement of the Colonies. 58 

'CHAPTER XXXVI— Causes of the Revolution. 59 

CHAPTER XXXVII— Troops sent to Boston, 

Mutiny act, Boston Massacre. - - 61 

CHAPTER XXXV II I- Battle of Lexington, 63; 

Bunker Hill, 64; 1 iconderoga. - 64 

CHAPTER XXXIX— Montreal, St Johns, Quebec, 

Canada, 65; Evacuation of Boston. - 66 

CHAPTER XL— British attack on Ft Moultrie, S. C. 
66 ; Declaration of Independence, 67 ; Long 
Island. _____ ^7 

CHAPTER XLI- White Plains, Capture of Fort 

Washington, Washington retreats across N. J. 67 

CHAPTER XLIIL— Saratoga, Ticonderoga, Crown 

Point, Stanwix, Bennington. - -71 

CHAPTER XLIII— Monmouth, N. J. Wyoming 

N. Y. New York, Newport, Rhode Island. 74 

CHAPTER XLIV— Savannah and Augusta, Ga. 

Stony Point, NY. - - - 75 



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CHAPTER XLV - _ _ _ 76 

Charleston, S. C ; Camden N. J : Francis 
Marion, Arnolds treachery. - - 77 

CHAPTER XLV1— Mutinies in Wayne's camp, 

Robert Morris, Bank of N. A. - - 78 

CHAPTER XLVIT— Cowpens, S. C. - - 80 

CHAPTER XLVIII— Gulford Court House, N. C. 

Cape Henlopen, NY. - - - 81 

CHAPTER XLIX— Charleston, Ninety Six, s. <\ 

Augusta, Ga. 82 

CHAPTER L— Paris France. - - 83 

CHAPTER LI— Trouble with England. - 85 

CHAPTER Lll — John Adams, of Mass., President 

1797-1801 - - - - 8» 

CHAPTER LIII— James Madison of Va., Battle of 
Tippicanoe, Ind, War Declared, Hull's sur- 
render, - - - - -91 

CHAPTER LIV — Madison's second term, York, La. 

St. Johns, Chrysler's, N. C. - - 93 

CHAPTER LV — Forts Meigs and Stephenson, Ohio. 95 

CHAPTER LVI— Perry's victory, 95; Battle of the 

Thames. - - - - 96 

CHAPTER LVII— Fall of Captain Lawrence - 95 
CHAPTER LVIII— Chippewa, Fort Erie, Pa, Niag- 
ara River, 98 : Lundy's Lane. - 99 
CHAPTER LIX— Hartford Conn., Convention 
Ghent, Belgium, The War ends. Battle of 
New Orleans, La. - - - 101 



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CHAPTER LX— Monroe's Administration. - 103 
CHAPTER LXI— Seminole War, Missouri Compro- 
mise. - 104 
CHAPTER LXII— Monroe's second Term - 105 
CHAPTER LXII[— Adams' Administration 1825-29 106 
CHAPTER LXIV— Andrew Jackson's Administra- 
tion 1829-37. - - 10 T 
CHAPTER LXY— The Florida War. - - 109 
CHAPTER LXVI— Nullifiers of S. C. 110 
CHAPTER LXVII— Difficulty with France. - 110 
CHAPTER LXVIII— Van Buren's Administration, 

R. M. Johnson, of Kentucky, Vice President. Ill 
CHAPTER LXIX— W. H. Harrison, of Ohio. 113 

CHAPTER LXX— Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island. 115 
CHAPTER LXXJ— Mormons in Illinois and Mis- 
souri. - 116 
CHAPTER LXXII— Polk's Administration. 117 

Col. Kearney, 120; General Scott. 121 

CHAPTER LXXIII— Battle of Cerro Gordo. 121 

CHAPTER LXXIV— Presidential Campaign, Taylor 

Fillmore. 124 

CHAPTER LXXV— The Omnibus Bill, 125 Lopez' 

Expedition. - 126 

CHAPTER LXXVI— Pierce' Administration - 127 
CHAPTER LXXVI1— Buchanan's Administration. 128 
CHAPTER LXXIII— Mormons, Paraguay, S. A, 

The Japanese treaty. - 129 

CHAPTER LXXIX— John Brown's Raid. - 130 



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CHAPTER LXXX— Presidential Campaign of 1860. 131 
CHAPTER LXXXI— The Great Rebellion. - 133 
CHAPTER LXXXIl— The Montgomery Convention. 133 
CHAPTER LXXXIII— Secession of other States. 135 
CHAPTER MXXXIV— Early Battles of the Rebell- 
ion. ---- _ 137 
CHAPTER LXXXV— Operations in Missouri 139 
CHAPTER LXXXVI— Loyal West Virginia, Cam- 
paigns of 1861-62. - 140 
CHAPTER LXXXVIT— Shiloh or Pittsburg Land- 
ing. - - 14r > 
CHAPTER LXXXVIII— Battles of 1862. 148 
CHAPTER LXXXIX- Operations in Virginia 1862 149 
CHAPTER XC— President calls for troops. - 151 
CHAPTER XCI— Victories and defeats. 153 
CHAPTER XCII— The Potomac Army. - 157 
CHAPTER XCIII— Battle of Gettysburg, Perm. 159 
CHAPTER XCIV— Vicksburg. 160 
CHAPTER XCV— Battles of 1803; Charleston, 
Mnrfreesboro, Chattanooga, Chicamauga, Look- 
out Mountain, &c. Extensive Operations along 
the Whole line. - 163 
CHAPTER XCVT— Grant's Campaigns in Virginia. 170 
CHA.PTER XCVII— Sherman's Campaign in Georgia. 172 
CHAPTER XCVIII— The Alabama. - 174 
CHAPTER XCIX— Virginia opperations in 18«4, 

Farragut at Mobile. - 177 

CHAPTER C— Presidential Campaign of 1S64 ITS 



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CHAPTER CI— Sherman's march to the Sea. 178 
CHAPTER CII— Campaigns that ended the war 182 
CHAPTER CIII- Capture of Charleston. - 183 
CHAPTER CIV— Sherman in the Carolinas, 185 
CHAPTER CV— Sherman. - 186 
CHAPTER C VI— Surrender of Lee. - - 187 
CHAPTER C VII— Lee Routed and Captured in Va. 187 
CHAPTER CV1II— Assassanation of Lincoln, Sur- 
render of Johnston. - 188 
CHAPTER CIX— Inauguration of President John- 
son. - 189 
CHAPTER OX— Reconstruction. - 190 
CHAPTER CXI— The French in Mexico. - 191 
CHAPTER CXII— Chicago's Great Fire. 194 
CHAPTER CXIII— Sioux War iu Minnesota. 197 
CHAPTER CXIV— Centennial. - - 199 



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History I United States, 



CHAPTER I. 



Voyages and Discoveries of Columbus. 

Columbus was born in Italy, 

Fourteen and thirty-five ; 
A plan which proved the world is round, 

He skilfully contrived. 
His ideas were, the world is round, 

With land on either side ; 
The ocean which he crossed from Spain, 

Is very deep and wide. 
He discovered at Bahama's isles, 

Fourteen and ninety-two, 
The continent of America, 

Which proves his ideas true. 
His second voyage, in ninety-three, 

He discovered Jamaica, 



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And on his third, in ninety-eight, 

South America. 
A western passage to India 

To seek he was inclined, 
This he sought fifteen and one, 

But it he could not find. 
At the age of seventy-one, 

Columbus died in Spain, 
He at Valladolid rests, 

Buried with his chains. 



CHAPTER II. 



Discoveries op John and Sebastian Cabot, f Ameri 
cus Vespucius, Ponce De Leon:}: and Balboa. % 

Then next from England Cabot came, 

Date somewhat later given ; 
John Cabot sailed to Labrador, 

Fourteen and ninety-seven. 
His son a northwest passage to find, (ToIndia) 

At still a later date, 
Sebastian discovered Newfoundland 

Fourteen and ninety eight. 
German Americus Vespucius, 

t English. % Spanish. 



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In ninety-nine with Ohacla came ; 
Americns wrote a history, 

Which gave America's name. 
In fifteen hundred Corteral 

Came to Brazilian shore, 
And Cabral in fifteen hundred and one 

Coasted Labrador. 
De Leon in fifteen hundred and twelve, 

To Florida came from Spain, 
But finding neither health nor wealth, 

Did not long remain. 
Balboa in fifteen and thirteen, 

While in the search for gold, 
Found the great Pacific ocean, 

We are by history told. 



CHAPTER III. 



De Ayllon, Cortez, Magellan, De Narvaez and 
Pjzarro, * Verrazani and Cartier. f 

De Ayllon in fifteen hundred and twenty 

To South Carolina came, \ 
And Cortez went to Mexico 

* Spanish. t French. % In search of gold. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

To seek for gold and fame. 
Magellan entered the broad Pacific, 

From its smoothness giving its name, 
His ship sailed half way 'round the globe 

The first to get that fame. 
Verrazani to Hatteras came, (N. C.) 

Fifteen and twenty- four, 
And from North Carolina to Cape Cod, 

The coast he did explore. 
Narvaez fifteen and twenty-eight, 

Florida did explore, 
But, dying in this enterprise, 

Lost all his men but four. 
Pizarro, fifteen and thirty-one, 

Did to Inca go, (S. A.) 
And with his small, determined band 

Did Inca overthrow. 
Cartier discovered St. Lawrence gulf, 

Fifteen and thirty- four, 
And in fifteen and thirty-five, 

That river did explore. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 5 

CHAPTER IV. 

DeScto, * Roberval, Huguenots, Melendez, f Gil- 
bert, Sir Humphry; Raleigh, Walter. % 

De Soto discovered the Mississippi, 

Fifteen and forty-one ; 
He died and he was buried there, 

But wonders he had done. 
Lord Roberval failed to settle New France, 1 

Fifteen hundred and forty two, 
And the Port Royal colony, (S. C.) 

Gave up its project, too. 
Some Huguenots came to Florida 

And settled on St. John's shore ; 
These French Protestants settled there 

Fifteen and sixty-four. 2 
Melendez came to Florida, 

Fifteen and sixty-five, 
And did not leave a Hugeunot 

That he could find, alive. 
Sir Gilbert sailed in seventy-eight 

To the Virginia shore ; 
His second voyage his ship went down 

And he was seen no more. 
In eighty-four Sir Raleigh's ship, 

* Spanish, t French. % English. 1 Near Quebec. 2 UnderSandoniere 



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To colonize did sail, 
He sent two different colonies, 

But to settle the country failed. 
Amidas and Barlow in eighty-four, 

With two of his ships arrived (at N. C.) 
And Greeneville planted a colony, 

Fifteen and eighty-five. 
He. fifteen hundred and eighty-seven, 

Sent a colony under White, 
And what became of that colony 

Has never come to light. 
He spent two hundred thousand dollars, 

Besides his time and cares, 
But failed, and then he was be-headed, 

On a charge forgotten for years. 



CHAPTER V. 



Gosnold, Weymouth, Prtng, John Smith- * Settle- 
ment of Virginia. 

Sixteen and two, in seven weeks, 

Gosnold to Cape Cod came, (Mass.) 

And Pring in sixteen hundred and four, 
* English. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Explored the coast of Maine. 
Weymouth, another navigator, 

Afterward did arrive ; 
He discovered the Penobscott river. 

Sixteen hundred and five. 
James I. to Wingfield, Hunt and Smith, 

Sixteen and six made a grant ; 
On it, in Virginia, the next year, 

They a colony did plant. 
John Smith, in sixteen hundred and eight, 

Gave geographical aid ; 
He sailed about three thousand miles, 

And a map of the country made. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Virginia Continued — Delaware — Dale — Powhattan 
and Pocahontas, Indi\n Chief and Girl. 

First, Governor Delaware sent o'er, 

In sixteen hundred and nine ; 
But soon the failure of his health 

Compelled him to resign. 
But through the efforts of Governor Dale 

Were good effects produced ; 



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Cattle and hogs, sixteen and eleven, 

Both were introduced. 
To Argall's purchase of Pocahontas 

Chief Powhattan dissents ; (Her father.) 
By marrying Rolfe, sixteen and thirteen, 

She, an Indian war prevents. 
Sixteen and fourteen, the colony 

The colony made an appeal for aid ; 
To that appeal the Parliament 

No attenion paid. 
About this time tobacco became 

Chief source of revenue, 
And as their corn was very scarce, 

It passed for money, too. 
Yeardley was their Governor, 

In Sixteen and nineteen, 
And Virginia's first representative bod)', 

At Jamestown did convene. 
From England for Virginian wives 

Were 90 young women sent o'er, 
And of these, as wives, were soon disposed 

And the next year 60 more. 
A constitution wasrecieved, 

Sixteen and twenty one, 
Then trial by Jury was obtained, 

Then was Success begun. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

Dutch Discoveries. 

Hudson made three discoveries, 

In sixteen hundred and nine; 
Hudson River, New York and Delaware Bays, 

Carved out his design. 
At Manhattan on Hudson's run, (Island.) 

The Indians drunk became; 
And Manhattan means drunkenness, 

Is what gave it the name. 
Hudson discovered the Bay of his name, 

In sixteen hundred and ten; 
He was left adrift in an open boat, (on the bay.) 

By his disappointed men. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



James Fiest of England— Charles First on the 
Throne — Virginia in 1660. 

There were in Virginia in twenty-two, 

Four thousand souls or more; 
But an Indian war left two thousand 



10 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 

In sixteen and twenty-four. 
James I. became quite jealous 

Of the London Company, 
And being offended at their acts, 

Their charter took away. 
He appointed a council and governor, 

And it a Province made ; 
But left them their Assembly, yet, 

Which was quite an aid. 
Charles I. sixteen and twenty-five, 

Succeeded to the throne, 
And by him were the colonists 

Many favors shown. 
Sir William Berkeley, in forty-one, 

Was their Governor ; 
In the fight of Charles and Parliament, 

To Charles they did adhere. 
In fourty-four the whole frontier, 

Was ravaged by Indians; 
But the Indians were driven back, 

And settlers gained much land. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 11 

CHAPTER IX. 



Sfttlement of N. Y. — Holland's Grant to Dutch Co. 
— Manhattan Bought for $21. 

New York first settled in thirteen, 
In the Isle of Manhpttan: 

This settlement was made by Dutch, 

Who called it Amsterdam. 
Sixteen and fifteen at Fort Orange 

Was a settlement commenced, 
And a fort was built at Amsterdam 

For the Colonists' defense. 
West of the Hudson River now. 

Was all in Holland's hands, 
The region around Amsterdam, 

They called the Netherlands. 
By Holland a grant in twenty-one, 

Was to a Dutch company made, 
Of all this country they could get 

For colonization and trade. 
Peter Minuits first Governor (of N. Y.) 

Come o'er in twenty-five. 
He bought the Isle of Manhattan, 

And the Dutch in business thrived. 
Some trading vessels sixteen and ten, 



12 HISTORY OF THE VX1TE1) STATES. 

To New York Dutch merchants sent, ('16.) 
And Schouten first rounded Cape Horn, 
South point of the continent. 



CHAPTER X. 



Janieslst. of England, makes a grant— Slaves— Puritans- 
Settlement of Mass., by English. 

At Plymouth Massachusetts sixteen-twenty, 

Arrived the Puritans. (From Eng.) 

First negro slaves brought to Virginia, 

To cultivate the land. 
To forty person, James 1st. did grant, 

A tract 8 degrees wide, (40 to 42 ° n lat. ) 
Stretched from the New England shore 

To the Pacific side. 
Plymouth, the first settled town, 

In Massachusetts or New England, 
Commenced sixteen and twenty 

By one hundred Puritans. 
These Pilgrims suffered dreadfully, 

And many of them died ; 
But with the faith of christains, 

On God they all relied. 



HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 13 

The Wampanoag Indians 

Treated them as friends ; 
But the neighboring Narragansett tribe, 

C c- c 

Hostilities began. 
To New England, 35 vessels came, 

Sixteen and twenty- two; 
But to aid the settlers, 

But little did they do. 
Governor Carver having died, 

Bradford now ruled them, 
A hostile Narragansett chief, 

Tried to frighten him. 
This chief to Bradford a rattle snake skin, 

Filled with arrows sent ; 
But he returned it with powder and shot, 

Each well knew what it meant. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Indian War in Virginia — English Grant to Gorges 
and Mason. 

In Virginia an Indian war occurred, 

With its destruction wide ; 
The Indians attacked the settlers 

At once on every side. 



14 HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. 

Gorges and Mason received a grant 

Of an extensive tract. 
Extending from the Kennebec 

To the Merrimac. 



CHAPTER XII. 



1572 — Drake, of England. . 
Sir Francis Drake, in seventy-two, 

To the isthmus Panama came, 
And captured a Spanish treasure there, 

Ready to ship for Spain. 
From there he saw the smooth Pacific, 

Appeared without a gale ; 
And in fifteen and seventy-nine 

In it he did sail. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



English Settlement at Massachusetts Bay— Endicot 
— Winthrop — Roger Williams — Rhode Island. 

John Endicot, in twenty-eight, 

Sailed to Massachusetts Bay, 
And with one thousand followers, 

Planted that colony. 



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A royal charter in twenty-nine 

Gave much authority ; 
And the company transferred its right 

To the colony. (Plymouth.) 

Provincial government was formed, 

With Winthrop at its head ; 
Provisions scarce, disease set in, 

And many were the dead. 
In religion were the Puritans 

Sectarian and severe ; 
And to no belief but their's 

Could any one adhere. 
But Roger Williams, a divine, 

Did object to it, 
And taught that all could worship God 

Just as they saw fit. 
To have that preached, the Puritans 

Never would consent, 
And ordered that this preacher should 

Be back to England sent. 
When Williams had this sentence heard, 

He left immediately, 
And settled Ehode Island, in thirty-six, 

On Narragansett Bay. 
He called the settlement Providence ; 

He this land from the Indians bought, 



10 HISTORY OF THE Z'XITED STATES. 

And many people followed him, 
Who perfect freedom sought. 

Rhode Island and Providence colonies 
Were chartered in fourty four, 

With plantation to each name, 
Were the names they bore. 

Three thousand souls from England came 

o 

To Boston in thirty-five ; 
Then did the different religious sects 

Against each other strive. 
Ann Hutchinson a doctrine preached, 

Which caused her banishment, 
And she with many followers 

To Rhode Island went. 
For education of the young, 

Massachusetts did provide ; 
The general court, to start a school 

At Cambridge, did decide. 
Each district of fifty house-holders, 

Was a school house to erect ; 
To-day we see Massachusetts' law 

Has its desired effect. 
When Cromwell gained the government 

They did with him side ; 
But in sixteen hundred and tifty-eight, 

Oliver Cromwell died. 



1640.] HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 17 

CHAPTER XIV. 



Progress of JN". Y. — Settlement of Del. 

The company for encouragement, 

Made a sixteen mile grant 
To any person who in four years, 

Would a colony of fifty, plant. 
Sixteen and forty, on the Dutch, 

The Indians made an attack, 
And Kieft who was then Governor, 

Performed a cruel act. 
Dutch in forty-two, an Indian robbed, 

Who was a Hackensack. 
Kieft massacred some Indians 

In a midnight attack. 
From these and other cruelties, 

An Indian war occured, 
And at one time the settlers, 

Annihilation feared. 
From the Jersey to the Connecticut, 

This war's destruction spread. 
Ann Hutchinson of whom we've seen, 

Is numbered with its dead. 
The whites with skill and courage fought, 

Although it seemed in vain ; 



18 HISTORY OF THE U.YITED STATES. [1640. 

But Roger Williams in his way, 

Brought terms of peace again. 
The war against the colonists, 

Was afterward renewed ; 
But by the gallant Underhill, 

The Indians were subdued. 
Delaware was settled in thirty eight, 

By a company of Swedes and Finns ; 
But by a charter of twenty-six, 

Its history begins. 
The Dutch look on this colony 

With very jealous eyes, 
And Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor, 

The Swedish right denies. 
He conquered them in fifty-one, 

And they get power no more ; 
And they were governed by the Dutch, 

Until Sixty-four. 



CHAPTER XV, 



Settlemet of Md. — Clatborne. 

A grant was made of Maryland, 
Sixteen and thirty-two. 



32.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 19 

George Calvert did obtain this grant, 

A noble work to do. 
This colony Calvert meant to plant, 

Alone fur freedom's sake. 
And the people's representatives, 

Were all their laws to make. 
Calvert was Lord Baltimore, 

A catholic so true: 
But to the right of other sects, 

He took a liberal view. 
At Calvert's death in Maryland, 

Was made no settlement: 
But his son Cecil obtained his right, 

And his brother Leonard sent, 
With some two hundred emigrants, 

To the grant in thirty- tour, 
Thev settled and built St. Mary's village, 

Near the Potomac shore. 
A while before was Clayborne sent, 

This country to survey. 
And to the rights of Baltimore. 

This man would not give way. 
An Indian war in forty-two. 

Was closed without delay. 
Clayborne a rebellion raised, 

And drove Calvert away: 
But Calvert soon returned with troops, 



20 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1614. 

And showed him a few tricks, 
This insurrection he suppressed, 

Sixteen and forty-six. 
In sixteen hundred and forty-seven, 

Leonard Calvert died, 
Then catholics and protestants, 

The power did divide,. 
Phillip Calvert in sixty, was 

Governor of Maryland, 
The population being now, 

Nearly four thousand. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Settlmeent oe Conn. First by Dutch, then by the 
English — Roger Willi a m s. 

Connecticut called from its Indian name, 

Which does long river mean, 
Discovered and settled by the Dutch 

In sixteen and fourteen. 
All about its fruitfulness, 

England shortly heard. 
'Twas granted to Warwick, sixteen-thirty, 

To Lords Say Seal and Brooke transferred 
They a fort at the mouth of Connecticut built, 



1637.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Sixteen and thirty-five, 
Emigrant parties to this iand 

Continued to arrive. 
The dutch first tried to keep them back 

And quite indignant grew ; 
But to succeed the Dutch soon found 

Themselves too weak to do. 
A company from Massachusetts Bay, 

Sixteen and thirty-five, 
By making a journey overland, 

At Connecticut did arrive. 
Another from Boston soon afterward 

A home in Connecticut sought ; 
And settled along the Connecticut 

On land from the Indians bought. 
Against the Pequods in thirty-seven, 

Connecticut, war declared ; 
The soldiers fought so desperately, 

That the Indians roughly fared. 
And Roger Williams in this war 

A christian spirit showed ; 
He got into his boat alone, 

And many a mile he rowed. 
To save some of these very men, 

Who him did persecute, 
He drew the Narragansetts off 



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By being resolute. 
Davenport and Eaton in thirty-eight, 

New Haven settlement made ; 
They took the bible for their law, 

As well as Christian aid. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Union of New England Colonlies — Arch Bishop 
Laud's Commission. 

In forty-one New Hampshire asked 

To join Massachusetts Bay, 
And they were granted this request, 

And made one colony. 
A little over forty years 

This union did remain ; 
And then the King these colonies, 

Did separate again. 
A commission empowered by Charles the 1st, 

Sixteen and thirty-four, 
Consisting of Arch Bishop Laud, 

And several persons more. 
Penalties they could inflict, 

They charters could revoke ; 
And by such acts the colonists 

Were very much provoked. 



1676.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Plymouth's patent was given up, 

Sixteen and thirty-five ; 
And Massachusetts Bay 

Of its charter was deprived. 
New Haven, Plymouth, Connecticut, 

Also Massachusetts Bay, 
United, sixteen and forty-three, 

To keep their foes away. 
This union for some forty years, 

Substantially remained ; 
But by the the King, in eighty-five, 
It was dissolved again. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



King Phillip's War. 



In sixteen hundred and seventy-five, 

King Phillip's war occurred. 
King Phillip was an Indian chief 

Whom all greatly feared. 
Against New England colonists 

These Indians waged this war, 
These were the brave Wampanoags, 

Noted far and near. 



24 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. [1GTG. 

A chief had been to Boston called. 



Sixteen and seventy-four; 
But he had the informer killed, 

Which caused this bloody war. 
King Phillip wept when war began, 

Was seen no more to smile; 
But being a loyal Indian, 

Fought bravely all the while. 
A thousand men in seventy-five, 

Commanded by Winslow; 
They une thousand Narragansetts slew, 

While the ground was covered with snow. 
We. the brave Canon chet said, 

Will fight to the last man; 
He was captured April Seventy-six, 

Defeating that great plan. 
Phillip took at Lancaster, seventy-six, (Mass) 

House of Mary Rolandson, 
And many a cold and heartless deed 

On that day was done. 
Church captured Phillip in seventy-six; 

Also his tribe destroyed. 
By this success the citizens 

Were greatly overjoyed. 



1676.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 25 

CHAPTER XIX. 



Navig atton Act — Bacon's Rebellion — Berkley— 
James Towburnt— Culpepper, Va. 

The navigation act enforced 

As passed in fifty-one. 
In sixty, by the Parliament 

Was tyranny begun. 
All exports were by English ships 

Taken to their own country; 
Thus was the whole West India trade, 

By this act taken away. 
The Susquehanna war occured 

Sixteen and seventy-five, 
Nathaniel Bacon, from England did 

At Virginia then arrive. 
He did sixteen and seventy-six 

The Indians defeat ; 
And then turned with his followers, 

The Governor to meet. (Berkeley.) 

A commission Berkeley promised him, 

Which he could not procure ; 
But Bacon with his followers 

Forced Berkeley's signature ; 
But when against the Indians, 



26 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. [1670. 

Bacon did proceed, 
He by Berkeley was a rebel called, 

Which caused a rebellion indeed. 
Berkeley across the Chesapeake 

Was compelled to flee. 
The people from his tyranny 

Were entirely free. 
The people after he had left, 

Burned Jamestown to the ground. 
At Bacon's death, to till his place 

There no one could be found. 
Berkeley got control again, 

And used his tyranny ; 
From which he was begged to abstain, 

And did reluctantly. 
Sixteen and eighty, Culpepper. 

Succeeded as governor, (of Ya.) 

And then the King declared Virginia 

A royal province once more. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Settlement of Carolina. 

In honor of Charles IX of France 
Was Carolina named. 



1683.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 2', 

By France and Spain were portions 

Of this territory claimed. 
Charles II, of England, in sixty-three, 

As history relates, 
Bestowed this land an Clarendon, 

And his associates. 
To form an Empire on this land, 

These men did contemplate; 
But the settlers such a government 

Did not appreciate. 
In sixteen hundred and seventy-tw T o, 

Wher« the city of Charleston now stands, 
Those from other colonies 

Settled on this land. 
Their population was increased, 

Sixteen and eighty-five; 
Huguenots, French Protestants 

In that year did arrive. 
Albemarl and Cape Fear 

Were the first settlements; 
But with their model of government 

They were not content. 
South Carolina settled first, 

At Charleston or there near, 
And North Carolina Albermarl, 

And one on the Cape Fear. 
Of North and South Carolina's name 



28 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [16" 

Locke's model was the cause. 
Each one formed its government, 

And made its different laws. 
This model as drawn up by Locke, 

Gave poor folks no rewards; 
But gave most every prive ] ege 

To a series of high Lords. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



SETTLEMENT OF Pa. BY Wm. PENN — PHILADELPHIA — 

The Quakers— Penn's Treaty with the Indians. 

Some Quakers to New Jersey came, 

Sixteen and seventy- five; 
And soon a plan to aid this creed, 

Did William Penn contrive. 
Penn was an Englishman by birth, 

A Quaker in belief, 
And to the people of his creed 

He was a great relief. 
He was a son of Admiral Penn, 

And was born forty-four. 
In aiding the free American cause 

He equalled Baltimore, 
A tract west of the Deleware, 

Sixteen and eighty-one, 



1683.] HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 29 

Term bought for sixteen thousand pounds, 

To which he had heir become. 
Penn Xo Pennsylvania sailed, 

Sixteen and eighty-two; 
Which three ship loads of emigrants 

A while before did do. 
Philadelphia, brotherly love, 

Was in eighty-three commenced, 
Kind feelings Penn hoped wou'd prevail 

Among the inhabitants. 
His treaty with the Delawares, 

Caused friendship to begin; 
Which made these Indinas have respect 

For the people of Penn. 
A quarrel of Penn and Baltimore 

About their lines began, 
A line which Mason and Dixon fixed, 

Seventeen and sixty-three. 
Thus was Pennsylvania settled, 

Sixteen and eighty-three; 
Having a republican government, 

The freeest of the free. 
For Penirs good works and noble acts, 

He but few thanks did get; 
But in seventeen and eighteen died, 

Encumbered much with debt. 



30 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1539. 

CHAPTER XXII. 



Union of Indian Tribes — Jesuits, Allenez, Mar- 
quette, Joliet, LaSauue. 

Five of the principle Indian tribes 

United in thirty-nine. 
The Tuscaroras, another tribe, 

This union soon did join. 
Jesuits visit the Mohawk tribes, 

Sixteen and seventeen: 
All tribes between lake Superior and Maine, 

Had missionaries seen. 
Allenez about Superior lake, 

Did in sixty-five explore, 
He discovered the wonderful pictured rocks, 

On its southern shore.. 
Marquette established the French post 

Of Mackinaw, Michigan; 
Then with Joliet in seventy-three, 

A greater work began. 
They down the Mississippi went, 

To the Arkansas mouth, 
And then went back toward Green Bay. 

On being that far south. 
To visit the Indians of Illinois 

The zealous Marquette tried. 



1682.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 31 

Lake Michigan, upon its shore 

Engaged in prayer he died. 
Lasalle commissioned by Louis XVI of France, 

Although of limited means; 
He started from Fort Frontenac, 

With the Jesuit Hennepin. 
In boats, canoes and overland 

They went for a long way; 
Hennepin went to the Mississippi, 

And La Salle back to Canada. 
La Salle did in eighty-one, 

To the Mississippi go; 
Descending it till eighty-two, 

To the Gulf of Mexico. 
He went to France and then returned, 

Commencing his search again; 
Was on Trinity river, Texas, Killed 

By his disappointed men. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



New Yoke Becomes an English Province— War Be- 
tween England and Holland. 

James II. of England, sixty-four, 
To his brother, a pliant tool, 



HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. [16.8S 

Made a grant of the Netherlands, 

Which accepted English rule. 
The names Fort Orange and Netherlands, 

The English changed this way, — 
They called the Netherlands New York, 

And Fort Orange, Albany. 
The English tried to get control 

Of every colony ; 
But in New York, like Stuyvesant, 

Their rule was tyranny. 
New York sixteen and sixty-seven 

Back to sixty-four, 
Nickols who took it from the Dutch, 

Had been it's governor. 
Between these powers in sixty-seven, 

There was a war declared, 
And before New York in a short time, 

A large Dutch iieet appeared. 
The English no resistance made, 

Giving up without a fight ; 
The Dutch took full possession then, 

And claimed their former right. 
Peace was by these countries made 

Seventeen and seventy-four ; 
New York to England by the Dutch 

Was at that time restored. 



1683.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 33 

Andros was made governor, 

And tried to rule by force, 
But was advised by Perm, to stop 

His arbitrary course. 
Thomas Dongan succeeded him, 

Sixteen and eighty-three, 
Having orders to recognize 

The Assembly's authority. 
Did a treaty from the Iroquois, 

New York and Virginia make ; 
The proud Mohawks and other tribes 

A part in it did take. 
French governor De la Barre, in eighty-four 

A descent on the Hudson made ; 
But many of his soldiers died, 

And thus he dearly paid. 
Denonvilie in eighty-six 

Succeeded De la Barre ; 
And he built Fort Niagara, 

Which helped to cause a war. 
He performed an act of treachery, 

To which he was inclined — 
He took some Iroquois, who were 

To the galleys of France consigned. 
(This act caused the French and Iroquois war.) 
The Iroquois in eighty-nine 



HISTORY OF THE UXITED STsLTKS. [\m. 

French power overthrew, 
They captured and burned Montreal 

And a thousand people slow. 
The French blew up Fort Froutenac, 

Also Niagara. 
The Indians now over ran 

Most all of Canada. 



CHAPTER XXLV. 



James II Becomes Kinc — Andros is Made Gov. of 
Cos*?.— Ii's Charter Hid in ax Oak— Gov. Phipps. 

James II while Duke of York, 

The colonies did him provoke: 
He the charters of the northern ones 

In eighty-five revoked. 
He Edmund Andros made governor of 

New England colonies. 
Who established first the English church, 

Then taxes were increased. 
Rhode Island assembly he dissolved, 

Then tried Connecticut; 
The assembly now resisted him, 

So did Governor Treat. 
The assembly was in session then. 



163!).] HISTORY OF THE UXITEI) STATES. 

And on the subject spoke; 
But night came on and Vadsworth hid 

The charter in an oak. 
A monument now marked the spot 

Where the charter was found, 
For in Eighteen and fifty- six 

It was b own to the ground. 
North of Pennsylvania, all English claims 

Were united in eighty- eight, 
Under this despotic Governor, 

Which trouble did create. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



James II, in eighty-nine 

Displaced by William the III, 
The people rose in open revolt 

When this glad news was heard. 
As Connecticut had her charter saved, 

All former rights enjoyed. 
They Andros for trial to England sent — 

Their own Magistrates restored. 
The next four years Massachusetts tried 

A charter to obtain. 
Attempts to get one like the first, 

Proved to be in vain. 



HISTORY OF THE VX1TE1) STATES. [1639. 

Colonial boundry was enlarged — 

Phipps became governor. 
For the people's rights this Governor 

But lhtle did he care. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



King William's War. 

France against England in eighty- nine, 

King William's war declared, 
Not knowing how in the Indian war 

The Canadas had hired. 
Frontenac, Canada's governor, 

Had obstacles to meet; 
To first destroy some English posts, 

And then join the French fleet. 
Then with his force he on New York 

Was ordered to advance; 
But found to join the Indians 

He yet would have a chance. 
The Abenakis first commenced 

Their hostilities; 
North-eastern colonists underwent, 

All their cruelties. 
The Indians leave the English now 



: ■■■:.} HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 3 

And go to Frontenac; 
Who combines his forces with them, 

New York to attack. 
He makes a long and rapid march 

Of twenty-two lung days; 
Readies and burns Schenectady, 

And sixty people slays. 
It was in ninety, Fontenec, 

Did this massacre; 
Those who escaped amid the snow, 

S u lie re d d read fully. 
Port Royal taken by Governor Phipp (N. S.) 

Of Massachusetts in ninety; 
He enough of Acadian plunder took, 

All his expense to pay. 
A combined land and naval force 

Was sent to Canada; 
It failed and time and money spent 

On it, was thrown away. 
This war now lasted for eight years, 

And neither side had gained. 
The territories at its close, 

As at first remained. 
And Mistress Dustin's heroism, 

We must not pass it by. 
Being captured by the Indians, 

Resolved to escape or die, 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1697. 

When they bad taken her aways, 

She got things in a shape, 
And killed ten of the Indians, 

And made good her escape. 
Till sixteen hundred and ninety-seven, 

Till the peace terms of Byswick, (Holland.) 
King William's war did the colonies 

Continued to afflict. 

WITCH DELUSION IN ENGLAND. 

Iii New England ninety-two, 

Witch-craft did prevail, 
And some of the inhabitants, 

Believed most every tale. 
And Cotton Mather, a minister, 

He this belief upheld; 
And every opposition to it, 

He and his friends soon quelled. 
A score of persons were put to death 

And many more tortured; 
And that he would be the next accused, 

Everybody feared. 
Burroughs, a minister was accused, 

And to the gallows went ; 
And immediately a law was passed, 

These murders to prevent. 



1692.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Cotton Mather wrote a book, 

Witch-craft to defend ; 
He was an advocate of it, 

Until his life did end. 



CHAPTER XXVII, 



Faix of James II of Eng— Leislfu— Wm. Kidd. 

When James II was displaced, 

The news soon reached New York. 
A committee of the people took 

Possession of the fort. 
By Leisler from the aristocrats, 

The government was wrung; 
But the English governor soon arrived 

And he had Leisler hung. 
Sloughter, the English governor died — 

Fletcher became governor, 
And trampled on the people's rights, 

For them he did not care. 
But he gave place te Bellamont, 

Sixteen and ninety-eight, 
These people from this tyranny 

Bellamont did liberate. 
William Kidd, a pirate, held 



40 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. [1(1 

Vast ill gotten gains ; 
Was cought in Boston, but in London hung, 

Seventeen and one, in chains. 
He to take pirates had been sent, 

But being not much concerned 
Found that that business did not pay 

And then he pirate turned. 
Ever since the days of Captain Kidd 

The yankces think ther's money hid. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



S. C. to 1700. 

Trouble South Carolina had 
Until ninety-five, 

Then Archdale become governor, 

And times then much revived. 
He a treaty with the Spaniards made, 

Those of St. Augustine, 
Then aught to check prosperity 

Could by no one be seen. 
In ninety-six, the first rice raised, 

In South Carolina grew; 
Cotton and silk were both produced, 

In seventeen hundred and two. 



1700.] HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATF/A. 
CHAPTER XXIX. 



French Settlement on the Miss. — Chi cknsaw Waii 
— D'Ieebtille— DArtaguei-e — 

DTberville in ninety- nine 

Founded Biloxi ; (Bc-lok-se.) 

In seventeen hundred where Natchez stands. 

He built Fort Rosalie. 
La Salle had taken thii for France, 

But it was claimed by Spain, 
French built this fort called Rosalie, 

Possession full to gain. 

The King of France seventeen and twelve,. 
Granted to Crozat, (Cro-zah.) 

Louisiana for fifteen years, 
As a monopoly. 

Before Crozat received this grant, 
Had DTberville died, 

And to return it to the Kins:, 
Crozat soon did decide. 

To advance French interests in Louisiana, 
John Law now undertakes. 

He a company in Paris formed (France.) 
Their fortunes soon to make. 

And trade with different countries, 



HISTOR ) ' OF THE I '. \ 'IT ED STATES. [ 1 71 '). 

7 Twas the Mississippi scheme. 

It soon went into bankrupts) 7 , 
And passed oft' like a dream. 

In seventeen hundred and twenty came 
This financial crush, 

Bringing ruin on it's stock-holders 
In a perfect rush. 

A city in Louisiana laid out, 
In seventeen and eighteen. 

And after Duke, then Regent of France, 
It was called New Orleans. 

The Frenchmen of Fort Rosalie, 
To the Indians wrong had done, 

These Indians were the Natchez tribe, 
The children of the Sun. 

They seventeen hundred and twenty-nine, 
Fell on fort Rosa ie; 

Save women, children and two mechanics, 
They all did massacre. 

Incited by the Chickasaws, 
The Natchez thus had done; 

Was in seventeen hundred and thirty- six, 
The Chickasaw war begun, 

With a thousand Indian braves, 
And the forces of New France, 

P' Artaguette attacked them, 
Aided by Vincennes. (Vinsenz) (Gov of 111.) 



1739.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 4 

They prisoners both these leaders took, 
There was good flighting done; 

But before the French gained the victory 
Their Indian allies run. 

Binnville made the second assault; 
But their works he failed to take, 

D'Artaguette and Vincennes were 
Both burned at the stake. 

In a similar war in thirty-nine, 
They suffered by disease; 

Which caused them with the Chickasaws, 
To conclude a peace. 



CHAPTER XXX, 



Queen Ante's War — Cafoltna's E\i 5 EDirroN — Deet 1 - 
ftetd, Mass. Elu ned 1701 — Quebec. 

Queen Anne's war seventeen and two, 

In Europe was begun; 
And in its lime in America, 

There was much fighting done. 
South Carolina sent a foice 

Against St. Augustine; 
r j )e year that Queen Anne's war begnn, 

Which lasied till thirteen. 



HISTORY OF THE I'XITKI) STATES. [1733. 

Deerfield, Mass. in four was burned, 

And fifty inhabitants killed; 
And one hundred and twelve as prisoners held 
. By Indians who were skilled. 
By the expedition of Governor Moore, 

Augustine was assailed; 
But the casJe was so strong, 

That he to take it failed. 
The English sent against Quebec, 

Neither did they win: 
Their ships being dashed against the rocks, 

They lost one thousand men. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Georgia Settlement in 1733— Wesleys — Wiiitefield 

— WlXFIELD— OOLKTIIOlU'K FlGHTS THE SrANTARDS 

at St. Atoustine. 

James Oglethorpe a member 

Of the English Parliament; 
For imprisoning men for debt, 

Had long tried to prevent. 
He obtained a charter from George II, 

For Georgia in thirty-two; 
He was a man the King could trust, 



1732.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 45 

Because lie was so true. 
He settled Georgia at Savannah, 

Seventeen and thirty-three; 
He'd visited his country's prisons, 

And had made hundreds free. 
By a small band of Muscogees, 

Was this region owned; 
In their treaty made with Oglethorpe, 

Were acts of kindness shown. 
The Wesleys come in thirty-six, 

A gospel work to do; 
In Georgia, Whitefield spent a while, 

He was ? preacher too. 
The Spanish did with Oglethorpe, 

About their lines contend; 
But wise negotiations put 

This contest to an end. 
Eng'and did in thirty-nine 

Commence a war with spain; 
Oglethorpe's expedition failed, 

Against St. Augustine, 
By a Spanish force in forty-two, 

St. Simons was assailed, 
But being deceived by Oglethorpe, 

The expedition failed. 
Oglethorpe to England went, 

Seventeen and forty-three; 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [ITU. 

The prosperous colony, 

He never again did see. 
Charter to the King resigned, 

By trustees in forty-two; 
As that increased their liberties, 

They a great thing did do. 



CHAPTER XXXLI. 



KrxG George's War— The Englirh Take Lotjisbtjr 
— Treaty of Aix la Chapelle ends the Wats. 

In seventeen hundred and forty-four. 

King George's war commenced; 
The English meant to gain more land, 

The Frenchmen meant defense 
Thiry-eight hundred colonial troops, 

Louisburg did take; 
But England gave it back to Prance, 

So they did nothing make. 
Treaty of Aix la Chapelle ends, (Holland.) 

This war in forty-eight; 
The treaty being misunderstood, 

Another war creates. 

BIRTH OF WASHINGTON. 

In oveiiteen hundred and thirty-two, 



1752.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Was born George Washington; 
And more good for America, 
No man has ever done. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



Fkencii and Indian War. 



The country of the Ohio 

Was yet a wilderness ; 
And neither France nor England had 

As yet this land possessed. 
The French at Presqui Isle held a fort, 

Seventeen and fifty-two, 
But as this land was claimed by both, 

The trouble graater grew. 
That all this land belonged to them, 

The French began to boast ; 
And on the Miami in fifty-two, 

Broke up an English post. 
The Ohio Indians sent, 

Half King to remonstrate, 
But French commissioners claimed this land, 

Which him did aggravate. 
Here brave Half King said to the French 

He named the English too, 



48 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [\lo% 

The Lord has given this land to us, 

It belongs to neither of you. 
Dinwiddie the governor of 

Virginia colony ; 
Had a message he wished to send 

To the French in Pennsylvania. 
He in fifty-three selected him, 

Whose age was twenty-one ; 
He bore the message to the French, 

That was George Washington. 
The English at the Ohio's head, 

Held a post in fifty-four ; 
But it was captured by the French, 

A loss they did deplore. 
Of all the posts the French now held, 

This one was the main, 
And after Canada's governor 

It was called Fort Du Quesne (De kane) 

CHAPTER XXXIV. 

The War Commenced. 

In seventeen hundred and fifty-four, 

This dreadful war began ; 
And a small force marched toward Du Quesne 

Under Washington. 
Half King sent to Washington, 



54.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATE*. 

Imploring of him aid ; 
And Washington by obstacles, 

Was very much delayed. 
When almost upon the French, 

He preparations made, 
By erecting Fort Necessity, 

The name of the stockade. 
The brave Halt' King and Washington, 

Their forces now unite; 
And kill and capture twenty French, 

In a fifteen minutes right. 
They afterwards capitulate, 

But they their armies save. 
West ofDu Quesne then for a while, 
' No English flag does wave. 
Benjamin Franklin, 

Was in Boston born, 
In seventeen hundred and six. 

In a candle factory first he worked, 
Filling moulds and cutting wicks. 

Apprenticed to learn the printing art 
When he was twelve years old ; 

But being harshly treated there, 
All his books he sold. 

He then to Philadelphia went, 
In seventeen and eighteen, 



50 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1754. 

While eating of a penny roll, 
By his future wife was seen. 

PREPARATIONS FOR A CAMPAIGN. 

Virginia and all the colonies 

North of Potomac shore, 
In council met the Iroquois, 

At Albany in fifty-four. 
They at Philadelphia chose to meet 

Once in every year ; 
The Iroquois which thej^ there met, 

To them did adhere. 

BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT JULY, 9TH. 

Against the French in fifty-five, 

Was General Braddock sent ; 
In pomp and military style, 

On this campaign he went. 
To this military style, 

Did Washington object, 
But the advice of Washington, 

On him had no effect. 
With an army of two thousand men, 

A toilsome march was made ; 
But fell when almost to Du Quesen, 

Into an abuscade. 
The Indians closed on every side, 

And each manoeuvre beat, 



1755:] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 51 

Braddock was wounded that he died, 

With his army on retreat. 
The French and Indian loss was light, 

They managed things quite well, 
While Braddock lost eight hundred men, 

And twenty-six officers fell. 
The Governor of Massachusetts was, 

Against Niagara sent ; 
But when he got to Oswego, 

Back to Massachusetts went. 
Johnson with thirty-four hundred men, 

Against Crown Point did go ; 
And defeated the French and Indians, 

Under Dieskau. (De-es-co.) 

The move against Acadia, 

Massachusetts undertakes. 
They take New Brunswick with its forts. 

And a success do make. 
The country of Acadia, 

They now did subjugate. 
Their treatment of its citizens, 

We will now relate. 
These frugal people they deprived, 

Of all their liberties, 
And seven thousand of them took, 

To southern colonies. 



HI ST OR Y OF THE UX1 TED STd TES. [ I 73 I. 

THE WAR DECLARED. 

In May seventeen and fifty-six, 

Was this great war declared; 
And to lead the French in Canada, 

General Montcalm appeared. 
Montcalm, Fort Oswego took, (N. Y.) 

With it, sixteen hundred men. 
The disposition of this man 

Caused much respect for him- 

LORD LOUDOUN 

Governor General, 

Appointed by the King- 
To operate against Montcalm, 

lie would not do a thing. 
Fort William Henry in fifty-seven, 

Was by rangers occupied; 
The enemy fifteen hundred strong, 

Who cold and storms defied. 
Over the deep and frozen snow, 

Came down from Canada; 
But finding the fort in readiness, 

Returned without delay. 
At Boston, northern Governors met 

To raise four thousand men, 
And Loudoun to his ministry, 

Did complain of them. 



1757.] HISTORY OF THE UXITEI) ST:1TES. 

That they would not tax themselves, 

iViul he could not force them to; 
But the complaint that Loudoun made, 

Was known to be untrue. 
Loudoun went to Halifax, (N. S.) 

And rai ed one thousand men, 
Then would not fight because the French, 

One ship outnumbered him. 
Montcalm Fort William Henry took, 

With his eight thousand men. 
Colonel Monroe with two thousand, 

Surrendered all to him. 
From General Webb's four thousand men, 

Monroe expected aid; 
But Webb just fourteen miles from there, 

At Fort Edward staid. 
Being offered au escort to Webb's camp, 

Monroe capitu'ates; 
But suffers an Indian massacre, 

As he anticipates. 
Pitt, appointed to manage affairs, 

Was the wisest man of all, 
And superceding the ministry, 

He Loudoun did recall. 
Ihev having confidence in Pitt, 

Their hopes were soon renewed, 
And they were shown a great respect, 

In all that they could do. 



HISTORY OF THE EXITED STATES. [1753. 
CAPTURE OF LOUISBURG. 

Amherst and Wolfe took Louisburg, 

Which the French could not prevent, 
Five thousand or more French prisoners wer e 

By them to London sent. 
Abercrombie and Howe, Ticonderoga, (July) 

Attacked in fifty-eight, 
^ix thousand British and nine thousand home 

Troops did participate. 
Montcalm with thirty-six hundred men, 

This stronghold did defend; 
The English army was repulsed, 

And lost two thousand men. 
In this action General Howe, 

The commander fell; 
And A'ojrcrombie to command, 

But did not very well. 
General Bradstreet with his force, 

Fort Frontenac did take; 
Also a number of French armed ships, 

On Ontario Lake. 

PROVINCIAL — GEN. FORBES — WASHINGTON. 

Forbes on his march toward Du Quesne, 

Was by bad roads delayed; 
And had three hundred men cut off, 

By an Indian ambuscade. 



1759.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 55 

Forbes with liis troops gave up the job, 

But Washington went on, 
And reached the place and found the French 

Had burned the post and gone. 
From Fort J)u Quesne he changed its name, 

And the name Pittsburg gave it, 
In honor of the people's man, 

Who was William Pitt. 
In Virginia's house of Burgesses, 

Colunel Washington, 
As a statesman in that place, 

Was his career begun. 

CAMPAIGNS OF 1759-60. 

Abercrombie was recalled, 

And Amherst took command; 
And operations against the French, 

In fifty nine he planned. 
Prideaux was ordered with his force, (Prid-o) 

To take Niagara; 
Stanwix to operate between 

Pittsburg and Lake Erie. 
Both expeditions did succeed, 

They did their work quite well; 
But Prideaux at Niagara, 

In that engagement fell. 
Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, 



1/ IS TON Y OF THE I '. \ 'IT El) ST>1 TKS. [Mod. 

Amherst advanced to take; 
Which lie found abandoned by the French. 
Who had gone down the lake. 

FRENCH GOVERNMENT. 

Of this war the French government, 

Would bear no more expense; 
Which left Montcalm a slender chance, 

To longer make defense. 

QUEBEC, CANADA. 

As Quebec is the strongest hold, 

On the continent; 
Against this, the intrepid Wolf, 

Was with his army sent. 

WOLFE ATTACKS QUEBEC, CANADA" 

Operations against Quebec, 

Did General Wolfe begin; 
But was repulsed in the assault, 

And lost four hundred men. 
September, two months afterward, 

Wolfe repulsed Montcalm, 
By surprising him in a night attack, 

On the plains of Abraham. 
They run! they run! his aids soon cried, 

Who runs? faintly Wolfe inquired. 
On being told the French had run. 

Contentedly expired. ' 



17C0.1 HISTORY OF TEE IWITK1) S7W7FS. 

Botli of these gallant leaders died, 

Each country did lament; 
And there their names are both inscribed 

Upon one monument. 
Everybody for Montcalm, 

Yet had great respect, 
And Wolfe forever glory won, 

'By capturing Quebec. 
Wolfe had about eight thousand men, 

Montcalm about the same; 
No two men in America, 

Have higher reached to fame. 

amherst's operaticms — trouble with the 
Cherokee's — this war ends. 

Amherst his forces does unite; 

September seventh, sixty; 
And takes Detroit and Montreal, 

And all of Canada. 
With the South Carolina Cherokees, 

A war did now begin; 
Colonel Montgomery opposed these foes, 

With nineteen hundred men. 
By them was Montgomery led, 

Into an ambuscade; 
And there was routed with his men, 

And no resistance made. 



HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. [1763. 

Tin's bloody French and Indian war, 

In sixty-three did end; 
Costing England £50,000,000, 

And thirty thousand men. 
The English had gained nearly all 

Of North America; 
They Catholic power overthrew, 

And Protestants took the sway. 

PONTIAC'S WAR, 1TG3. 

The next war was with Pontiac, 

Caused by his war like acts; 
He incites the different tribes to war, 

And they make some attacks. 
Pontiac beseiged Detroit, 

But it he failed to take; 
And then the British and Indians, 

Did a treaty make. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



Advancement of the Colonies. 

In sixty, the thirteen. colonies, 
Two million souls contained; 

Philadephia, Boston and New York, 
To great size had attained. 



1760.1 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. _"_. ¥30 

The rapid growth of commerce did 

England much distress; 
At Cambridge, sixteen and ninety-nine, 

Was commenced a printing press. 
Was published in Boston, seventeen and four, 

The Boston News-Letter; 
Then the colonies had the first, 

Permanent newspaper. 
In fifty, were seven newspapers, 

But literature grew; 
The Federal Orrery, first daily 

Was published in ninety-two. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Causes of tiis REVOLTJ'rrox. 



England used the colonists, 

As an inferior class; 
And the way she bound them down, 

Nothing could surpass 
The odious navigation act, 

As enforced in sixty; 
Oppressed the colonies so much, 

That they would not obey. 
It prohibited manufactories, 



0.) 



HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. [1701. 



And iron works denounced; 
And William Pitt, the people's friend, 

These acts unjust pronounced. 
To oppress the colonics, 

Is what they meant to do; 
But these brave determined men, 

They could not subdue. 
Writs of assistance authorized, 

The search of house or store; 
For any goods that they might think, 

Illegally brought on shore. 
In sixty-five, the stamp act passed, 

Selling British stamps, it meant; 
Compelling the colonists to stamp, 

Each paper and document. 
To this did the colonies, 

Unanimously object; 
As it was on November first. 

To go into effeet. 
The co'onists resistance made, 

Before arrived this day; 
But in sixty-six it was repealed, 

After some delay. 



1766.] HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Tuoors sent to Boston — Mutiny Act — Boston 
Massacre. 

A bill to tax such articles, 

As paper, tea and glass; 
Also great opposition met, 

As soon as it was passed. 
Massachusetts had to England shown, 

Plainly what she meant, 
And British troops in sixty-eight, 

Were to Boston sent. 
From the mutiny act, as it was called, 

More trouble did arise; 
They were asked to give these troops, 

Quarters and supplies. 
And the Assembly of New York, 

Refusing to comply, 
All their rights to Legislate, 

Bid Parliament deny. 
Massachusetts proposed to unite and resist, 

And found all the colonies true; 
Parliament ordered them this to rescind, 

Which they refused to do. 
The soldiers grew so insolent, 

Seventeen and seventy; 



3 HIS TOR Y OF THE I '. \ 7 TED S T:L J'XS. [ 1 770. 

They and the people had a fight, 

Called tiie Boston mass tore. 
This act to the citizens, 

Quite an advantage proved; 
To Castle William with his troops, 

General Gage then moved. 
Taxation without representation, 

They all declared unjust; 
And all these independent acts. 

Did Parliament disgust. 
The taxes were rescinded now, 

Except the tax on tea; (March 12th) 
This they left to show, they claimed, 

Yet the authority. 
A ship of tea at Boston hay, 

Decemher, seventy-three ; 
Some men at night time, in disguise, 

Threw over-board this tea. 
First Continental Congress met, 

September, seventy-tour ; 
Declaring to the tyrant's power, 

That they would yield no more. 
All but the Georgia colony, 

Was represented there ; 
These fifty-three firm delegates, 

For freedom did declare. 



1705.1 HISTORY OF THE l-XITKD STATES. 

Philadelphia is the place, 
Where this work was done ; 

By such men as R. II. Lee, 

Patrick Henry and Washington. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



And Patrick Henry in sixty-five, 
In a loud clear voice was heard ; 

In Virginia's House of Burgesses, 
Denouncing George the III. 

BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, MASS. 

Under Percy and Smith, in sixty-live, 

British fought at Lexington ; 
The Americans no commander had, 

But the} 7 the victory won. 
These men were in a moment raised, 

Determined not to yield ; 
And Putnam left his oxen yoked, 

And standing in the field. 
Nineteenth of April was the fight, 

The Americans had success; 
The British two hundred and sixty lost 

The Americans ninety or less. 



64 HISTORY OF THE UMTED STATES'. [1775. 

BUNKER HILL NEAR BOSTON, MASS. 

Under Prescott, at Bunker Hill, 

The Americans bravely fought ; 
The British under General Howe, 

This victory dearly bought. 
The shots of the Americans, 

In the British ranks did tell ; 
But while retreating in good style, 

The gallant Warren fell. 
The English lost a thousand men, 

And Howe received a wound ; 
Four hundred and fifty Americans, 

A loss to them was found. 
Thus on the seventh of June, 

Four thousand English fought, 
Fifteen hundred Americans, 

Who them a leson taught. 

TICONDEROGA N. Y. TAKEN, MAY IOtII. 

Ethan Allen and Arnold did, 

Ticonderoga take, 
The surprised and sleeping garrison, 

Could no resistance make. 
Second Continental Congress met, 

On the tenth of May ; 
Making Wasuington Commander-in-chief, 

Who acted without delay. 



1775.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 65 

They sent a petition to the King, 

Which he would not receive. 
That they could much resistance make, 

He could not believe. 
Washington to take command, 

At Boston soon arrived ; 
To use these fourteen thousand troops, 

A way he soon contrived. 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



Montreal— St. Johns — Quebec, Canada. 

General Montgomery in Canada, 

Captured Montreal; 
Also St. Johns on Lake Champlain, 

Into his hands did fall. 
With Arnold, he to Quebec went, 

With some nine hundred men ; 
December thirtieth, seventy-five, 

He assault on it commenced. 
In this assault made on the place, 

The brave Montgomery fell ; 
Was Arnold wounded in the leg, 

While doing his duty well. 
Aud Captain Morgan was hemmed in, 



63 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [V 

So he could not retreat ; 
The Americans lost six hundred men, 
They met with sad defeat. 

HOWE EVACUATES BOSTON, MARCH 17TH. 

General Howe in seventy-six, 

At Boston had command ; 
A move to drive him from this place, 

Washington soon planned. 
This movement caused the British force, 

To evacuate ; 
To the joy of the citizens, 

Whom it did aggrivate. 



CHAPTER XL. 



British Attack on Fort Moultrie, S. C. 

By Clinton's troops and Parker's fleet, 

Fort Moultrie was assailed ; 
The Americans under Moultrie, won, 

Therefore the British failed. 
The Americans had encountered now, 

The mistress of the seas ; 
Moultrie won, June twenty-eighth, 

One of these victories. 



1770.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 

July fourth, in seveuty-six, 

Independence was declared ; 
At Philadelphia these great men, 

For liberty prepared. 
This instrument was drafted by, 

Franklin, Jefferson, 
Roger Sherman, John Adams, 

Robert R. Livingston. 

LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 

At Long Island, Clinton's force, 

About ten thousand men; 
Over Putnam's nine thousand, 

Did a victory win. 
'Twas August twentyse-venth, 

That occurred this fight, 
The Americans lost two thousand men. 

The English loss was light. 



CHAPTER XLI. 



White Plains— Capture of Fort Washington- 
Washington's Retreat across N. J. 

Howe's army moves on Washington's, 
Now resting at White Plains; 



GS HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. [1776. 

Howe, October twenty-eighth, 

Here a victory gains. 
The Hessians sent by General Howe, 

Against Fore Washington, (N. Y.) 

Held by twenty-six hundred men, 

They took this garrison. (Nov. 16.) 

These Hessians lost one thousand men, 

Though victory was complete; 
Across New Jersey, Washington, 

Began now to retreat. 
As destruction stared them in the face, 

All patriots now feared; 
The army a band of fugitives, 

Both destitute and scared. 

TRENTON — PRINCETON, N. J. 

Washington on Christmas night, 

One thousand Hessians took; 
At Trenton, was this victory won, 

Which made things brighter look. 
Third of January, seventy-seven, 

General Washingron; 
Over Cornwaliis, gained, 

A victory at Princeton. 
Cornwaliis lost four hundred men, 

Howe with remorse was filled; 
The Americans lost one hundred men, 

With General Mercer, killed. 



1777.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATUS. 69 



Howe moved on Philadelphia now, 

With eighteen thousand men; 
With eleven thousand men Washington, 

A battle had with him. 
Howe met the Americans in front, 

At this battle of Brandywine; 
Conwallis surprised and routed them, 

By stealing around behind. 
Under Sterling, Wayne and Sullivan, 

Most gallant men were found; 
\/ Polish Count, Pulaski, was there too, 

Lafayette received a wound. 
On a march of four miles in forty minutes, 

Green's Army well behaved; 
This march the American army from, 

Entire destruction saved. 
Lafayette's career in America, 

Then had just begun; 
This Frenchman was a noble youth, 

Not yet quite twenty-one. 
The British had complete control, 

Of Philadelphia now; 
And Franklin in his witty way, 

Said it had taken Howe. 
About six hundred, General Howe, 

Lost of his command; 



HISTORY OF THE VX1TED STATES. [1777. 



And thirteen hundred was the loss, 

Of the Americans. 
The British on September eleventh, 

This great victory won; 
And at Germantown, October fourth, (Pa.) 

They routed Washington. 
Why Washington at Germantown, 

Lost the victory. 
Was the foe's confusion in the fog, 

So thick lie could not see. 
The forts along the Delaware, 

Howe now advanced to take; 
And there defense being weak, 

Could no resistance make. 
How Washington at Valley Forge, 

With an army destitute; 
His men areat hardships underwent, 

Which proved them resolute. 
Here the winter of seventy-seven and eight. 

He passed most drearily; 
But predicted aright, by nature's laws, 

That it would pass away. 



1775.1 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 71 

CHAPTER XLII. 



Sakatoga— Ticondkkoga — Ciiown Point, Stanwix, 
N. Y. — Bennington, Vt. 

The expedition of Burgoyne, 

Came down from Canada ; 
Down through N. Y., past Lake Champlain 

This army made its way. 
With an army often thousand men, 

British and Indians, 
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 

Fell into his hands. 
The American General Sciryler, tried, 

His progress te impede ; 
By doing damage to his route, 

But he could not succeed. 
Tyron in Connecticut, 

Danbury stores destroyed, 
American militiamen, 

He by them was annoyed. 
St. Leger, at Fort Stanwixk, lay, 

Against which Arnold moved ; 
And as for skill and strategy, 

Sufficient Arnold proved. 
He caused them to evacuate, 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [V 

These means he did employ ; 
To huve it told, his force was large, 

By a halfwitted boy. 
This Tory boy well did his work. 

It was a lie complete ; 
And the British leaving everything, 

Beat a brisk retreat. 
Sixteenth of August, General Stark, 

Met Banm at Bennington ; 
Banm commanded the British here, 

But Stark the victory won. 
The British lost eight hundred men, 

At this battle of Bennington; 
The Americans some two hundred lost, 

Stark very well had done. 
Scuyler was superseded now, 

By Major General Gates; 
Horatio Gates was in England born, 

Seventeen and twenty-eight. 
First battle of Saratoga fought, 

September nineteenth day; 
The armies of Burgoyne and Gates, 

Fought most desperately. 

SECOND BATTLE. 

Burgoyne moved out, October seventh, 
On the Americans; 



1775.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 7 

Both Generals then renewed the fight, 

With their entire commands. 
Tornpson with his riflemen, 

Fought most gallantly; 
But General Gates was in his tent, 

Where he remained all day. 
And General Frazier, Morgan thought, 

Was fighting most too well, 
And ordered him to be nicked off, 

And the British General fell. 
Without command and under arrest, 

Brave Arnold rode ahead, 
The brave American army led. 

Back to Saratoga, Burgoyne falls, 
And there capitulates, 

Six thousand men, his armament, 
Surrenders to General Gates. 

The British paid the Indians, 
For scalps on this campaign, 

They ki led and scalped Miss McRea; 
This bounty to obtain. 

She was promised to Lieutenant Jones, 
An English officer; 

Who deserted and to England went, 
When he her fate did hear. 

Benjamin Franklin in the French Courts, 
Such arguments advanced; 



74 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. [1778. 

That in seventy-eight, the colonies, 
Were recognized by France. 

The Americans lost two thousand men, 
On this Burgoyne campaign; 

The British had their army lost, 
Besides had nothing gained. 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



Monmouth, N. J. — Wyoming, N. Y — New York- 
Newport, Rhode Island. 

At Monmouth, June twenty-eight, 

Did Lee and Clinton meet; 
No sooner had the fight began, 

Than Lee ordered retreat. 
The troops were half" demoralized, 

And panic had begun; 
When they were led back to the fight, 

By General Washington. 
The battle raged most furiously, 

Throughout that sultry day; 
And Clinton being completely whipped, 

That night he stole away. 
Wyoming valley in July, 

Some Indians and Tories; 
Assailed that thriving settlement, 



1779.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 75 

And did some massacres. 
Butler commanded the citizens, 

About three hundred men, 
A Butler commanded the combined foes, 

But the Butlers were no kin. 
An American land and naval force, 

Was to Newport sent; 
But a tremendous hurricane, 

A conflict did prevent. 
D'Estaing's French fleet, and Byron's British, 

Put to sea for repairs; 
And Sullivan fled at Clinton's approach, 

Lest he should roughly fare. 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



Savannah, Augusta, Ga,— Stony Point, N. Y. 

By the British, to Georgia in seventy-nine, 

The conflict was transferred; 
They Savannah and Augusta took, 

And the state was soon conquered. 
Prevost to Savannah went, 

And it he fortified; 
D'Estaing's fleet and Lincoln's troops, 

Boldly he defied. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1779. 

October ninth the troops and fleet, 

Did this strong-hold attack; 
But there they lost one thousond men, 

And Prevost drove them back. 
General Wayne at Stony Point, 

With his eight hundred men; 
Surprised this fort, and rushed ahead, 

Determined that he'd win. 
The wounded Wayne kept promptly up, 

With his Americans; 
Six hundred prisoners on that day, (July 15) 

Fell into his hands. 



CHAPTER XLV. 



In August, General Sullivan, 

Gained a victory ; 
Over the Indians in New York, 

Most decisively. 
Paul Jones September, twenty-third, 

Won a victory, 
The Bon Homme Richard, was his ship. 

Out on a foreign sea ; 
The Serapis, an English ship of war, 

Convoying an English fleet. 



1780.] BISTORT OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Jones in this fight captured her, 
His victory was complete. 

CHARLESTON, S. C. CAMDEN, N. J. 

Seventeen and eighty, Lincoln's force, 

At Charleston was hemmed in ; 
He stood a siege of forty days, 

With his five thousand men. 
Lincoln did capitulate, 

On the twelfth of May ; 
Cornwallis pushed the siege, 

And gained the victory. 
At Camden, August, sixteenth day, 

Gates with his Army moved, 
The battle fought there on that day, 

To Gates, disastrous proved. 
Cornwallis gained the victory, 

At battle of Camden ; 
Gates' army was demoralized, 

And lost two thousand men. 

RRANCIS MARION ARNOLD'S TREACHERY 

A scouting captain in this war, 

Francis Marion; 
To the British everywhere, 

Was quite troublesome. 
Arnold who had done so much, 



78 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1739. 

His country now betrayed ; 
And of an active British force, 

He was commander made. 
Was British Major Andre sent. 

With Arnold to confer ; 
But three American patriots, 

Caught this officer. 
Upon his mission being found, 

They as a spy, him tried ; 
They proved him guilty of the act, 

And as a spy he died. 
Two hundred million dollars of, 

Continental currency, 
Was so depreciated that, 

Redeemed it could not be. 



CHAPTER XLVL 



Mutinies is Wayne's Camp— Robert M)riiis 
Bank of N. A. 

On the night of January first, 

Seventeen and eighty-one ; 
By Pennsylvania regiments, 

Was mutiny begun. 
The true commander of these men, 



1781.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. TO 

Tried them to restrain ; 
But found that he could nothing do, 

That man was General Wayne. 
Then toward Philadelphia marched, 

Some thirteen hundred men, 
But Congress settled the affair, 

By satisfying them. 
New Jersey troops soon afterward, 

Went into mutiny; 
But Washington by punishment, 

Stopped it immediately. 
In February, Kobert Morris, 

Was appointed financier ; 
And proved to be a useful man, 

Throughout his whole career. 
Of the Bank of North America, 

Morris took the lead ; 
As that revived the credit much, 

It was a help indeed. 
He collected all the gold, 

That could be obtained ; 
And at the presentation of bank bills, 

They promptly were redeemed. 



80 HISTORY OF THE UNITED SMITHS. [1731 

CHAPTER XLVII. 



Cowpkns, 8. C. 

On January seventeenth, 

General Morgan won; 
An Amerien victory at Cowpens, 

Over Tarleton. 
The number that the British lost, 

Was six hundred and eighty-three ; 
While seventy Amereeans, 

Were given for victory. 
General Morgan with his force, 

Commenced a grand retreat; 
And Cornwallis followed him, 

Chagrined at the defeat. 
The Catawba after Morgan crossed, 

Was swollen by a rain; 
Which checked the Britis for three days, 

Then they pursued again. 
General Green assumed command, 

And went to Morgan's aid; 
And towards the Yadkin in hot haste, 

The American army made. 
This river, after Green had crossed, 

Was risen by a rain; 
And Cornwallis in pursuit, 

Was detained again. 



1781.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 81 

CHAPTER XLVIII. 



Guilford Com t House, N. U .— Capk IIenuopen, N. J. 

General Green nineteenth of March, 

With forty-four hundred men; 
At G-uiford Court House had a fight, 

But there he did not win. 
He lost about lour hundred men, 

And his artillery; 
Cornwall's lost six hundred men, 

But gained the victory. 
Now alter Arnold, Lafayette, 

Moved with twelve hundred men; 
And soon they an engagement had, 

Near Cape Henlopen. 
The traitor Arnold before this, 

Had to Virginia gone; 
And with flame and sword and tyranny. 

His work he carried on. 
The British to entrench themselves, 

Now had to decide; 
And Cornwallis to Yo:ktown, moved, 

And it he fortified. 
An American yielded to his foes, 

His liberty to gain, 
And was shot for trying to aid his side, 

'Twas Colonel Hayne. 



82 HIS TOR Y OF THE U. \ 'IT ED ST-I TES\ 1 1 78 1 

CHAPTER XLTX. 



Charleston, Ninety Six, S. C. — Augusta, Ga. 

Charleston, Augusta and Ninety Six, 

In English hands remained; 
But the Americans soon after this, 

Possesssion of them gained. 
Seven thousand Americans. 

And some five thousand French; 
Advanced right on to Yorktown where, 

Cornwall's lay intrenched. 
And on September twenty-eighth, 

They made the first attack; 
But for twenty days the British kept, 

These assailants back. 
French Rochambeau and De Grasse, 

Them we must not forget; 
They took a part in this campaign, 

As well as Lafayette. 
Cornwallis found the allies had, 

On all sides hemmed him in; 
And surrendered here to Washington, 

His seven thousand men. 
The joyful news of Yorktown's fall. 

Was carried near and far: 
Af knowing that this great victory, 



1782,] HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 88 

Would surely end the war. 
Lord North, prime minister to George III 

Who favored war, resigned; 
And his successor towards peace, 

Decidedly inclined. 
The armies both inactive lay, 

And signs of peace appeared; 
Although, the strife might be resumed 

Yet, was greatly feared. 



CHAPTER L. 



Pakts, Franc?:. 



At Paris, on September third, 

Seventeen and eighty-three; 
The treaty of peace was signed, which gave, 

America's liberty. 
Dissatisfaction became rife, 

And mutinies prevailed; 
In every case, opposing right, 

The perpetrators failed. 
A base of union in the war, 

On which all had agreed; 
'Twas found, without a stronger one, 

They never could succeed. 



84 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1783. 

Confederation articles, 

All saw must be revised; 
Convention held in eighty-seven, 

Different p ans contrived. 
The constitution they adopt, 

Seventeenth of September; 
But it great opposition met, 

Almost everywhere. 
At Philadelphia with closed doors, 

This great work was done, 
This convention's president, 

Was General Washington. 
April thirtieth, eighty-nine, 

General Washington; 
Was inaugurated President, 

Well were his duties done. 
Jolui Adams, his Vice President, 

Was an honor too; 
And all things for the country's good, 

These men now tried to do. 
New York was then capital. 

Where this first congress met, 
Jefferson, Hamilton, Randolph and Knox; 

Were Washington's cabinet. 
At Philadelphia, a U. S. bank, 

Projected by Hamilton; 
With a $10,000,000 capital, 



1704.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 85 

Located in ninety-one. 
New York was made the capital, 

For ten years to remain; 
At the expiration of that time, 

Was to be moved again. 



CHAPTER LI. 



Trouble with England. 

England claimed Americans, 

Their just debts would not pay; 
Americans claimed the Eng'ish had, 

Carried slaves away. 
The English still held frontier posts, 

Our seamen they impressed; 
In many ways did England still, 

Our people much distressed. 
A treaty was with England made, 

By Chief Justice Jay; 
Disregarding American claims, 

But agreed these debts to pay 
This treaty of Jay, in ninety-five, 

The Senate ratified; 
With which the people generally, 

Were much dissatisfied. 



8G HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1703. 

In sixteen hundred and ninety-four, 

Indians defeated by Wayne ; 
The whiskey rebels in Pennsylvania, 

Resisted the tax in vain. 
Access to the Mississippi, 

Our people tried to gain ; 
Tins they obtained in ninety-two, 

By a treaty made with Spain. 
When France and England were at war, 

The Americans sympathised ; 
With France, although the President, 

Neutrality advised. 
When Genet found the government, 

Would give to France no aid ; 
To the people generally, 

An appeal he made. 
As Genet was French minister, 

That act was an insult; 
Washington had him recalled, 

And that was the result. 
Washington as President, 

His second terra expired ; 
Then again to private life, 

He quietly retired. 



1797.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 87 

CHAPTER LI I. 



John Adams, of Mass. Pkesidekt, 1797-1801. 

John Adams in Massachusetts born, 

Seventeen and thirty-five ; 
P>y his speeches his great cause, 

He always could revive. 
Adams served from ninety-seven, 

'I ill eighteen hundred and one; 
This President's Vice President, 

Was Thomas Jefferson. (Of Va. ) 

The alien and sedition laws, 

Passed by the Federals ; 
Virginia and Kentucky pronounced, 

Unconstitutional. 
Our Minister was told to leave, 

Paris immediately ; 
These orders came directly from 

The French Directory. 
Our ships were captured by the French, 

Our flag received insults ; 
To check the advocates of France, 

These acts had their results. 
Our government for war with France, 

Without delay prepared ; 



88 HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. [1830. 

Id seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, 

This war was declared. 
Of* the army, Washington, 

Was Commander-in-chief ; 
From earthly ills in ninety-nine, 

This great man found relief. 
In eighteen hundred, the capital, 

Was moved to Washington; 
For a second presidential term, 

Then was John Adams run. 
Aaron Burr and Jefferson, 

In this election, tied ; 
To give the place to Jefferson, 

Congress did decide. 
Burr and Jefferson were run, 

By the Republicans ; 
But Burr was disappointed so, 

That he laid other plans. ( Burr was V. P. ) 
For Louisana, eighteen and three, 

Was $15,000,000 paid; 
The U.S. bought this land of France, 

And a good bargain made. 
Three millions of the money went, 

As an indemnity ; 
For damage to our commerce did, 

By French on the high seas. 



1813.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 95 

CHAPTER LV. 

Fokt Meigs and Stephenson, OH.ro. 

General Harrison with his troops, 

Now was at Fort Meigs; 
And Proctor laid to the weak fort, 

An unsuccessful siege. 
General Proctor, August first, 

Assailed Fort Stephenson; 
There Major Croghan had command, 

Whose age was twenty-one. 
The Americans under Croghan, were, 

One hundred and fifty men; 
The British thirteen hundred strong, 

Were repulsed by them. 



CHAPTER LVI. 



Pekhy's Victoky on Lake Erie. 

The Americans, on September tenth, 

A naval victory won ; 
By Captain Perry in this fight, 

Heroic work was done. 
Commodore Barclay had command, 

Of the British fleet, 



96 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. ( 1813. 

And there the true Americans, 
In success were complete. 

BATTLE OF THE THAMES, (TEMZ) CANADA. 

Proctor had two thousand men, 

Near Maiden, Canada, 
And Harrison moved against this post, 

From near Sandusky Bay. 
Proctor had a motley force, 

Containing Indians; 
The Shawnee chief Tecumseh, was 

The second in command. 
October fifth, in Canada, 

General Harrison, 
Fought Proctor on the river Thames, 

And there a victory won. 
Colonel Johnson in that fight, 

Aimed a shot quite well ; 
Tecumseh by that shot was struck, 

And that brave Indian fell. 



CHAPTER LVII. 



Fall oe Captain Lawrence, June 1st. 

Captain Lawrence from Boston sailed, 
In the Chesapeake ; 



3812.1 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 93 

Their General had no right. 
The navy had successful been, 

To a high degree ; 
We now tell of Americans, 

And their success on sea. 
The Constitution, August ninth, 

She of" a victory boasts : 
She captured the British Guerriere, 

Off the Massachusetts coast. 
The wasp, a sloop, October thirteenth, 

Also of victory boasts ; 
They took the Frolic, a British brig, 

Off North Carolina cost. 



CHAPTER L1V. 



Madison's second Term — York, La. — St. Johns 
Chrysler's, N. C. 

For a second term, eighteen and twelve, 

They elected Madison; 
But many thought the war, 

Had only just begun. 
Late In April, General Pike, 

In eighteen and thirteen, 
Took York upon Canada, 



94 HISTORY OF THE VX1TKD STATES. [1813. 

With seventeen hundred men, 
The British blew up a magazine, 

Which the air with debris filled; 
Two hundred of his men were lost, 

And Pike himself was killed. 
The Americans took this British post, 

And nearly all its men; 
But General Sheuffee escaped, 

With a part of them. 
Dearborn, Hampton and Harrison, 

These Generals had command; 
And with their armies at the north, 

They campaigns had planned. 
Wilkinson at Chrysler's field, 

Repulsed the enemy; 
But General Hampton at St. Johns, 

Was whipped decidedly. 
Hampton and Wilkinson disagreed, 

And plans were disarranged; 
And Hampton back to Plattsburg fell, 

Thus ending the campaign. 
In January, Winchester, 

At Frenchtown, Michigan; 
Fought Procter's British and Indians, 
And lost his whole command. 



1801).] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 91 

CHAPTER L HI. 



James Madison, of Va. — Battle of Tippecanoe, Iko. 
War Declar el —Hull's Surrender. 

Fourth President, James Madison, 

Was a Republican ; 
With Clinton as Vice-President, 

For war he laid his plans. 
Republicans now favored war, 

Which Federalists opposed, 
The war party's majority? 

Constantly arose. 
Eighteen and eleven, sailors' rights, 

Was heard all o'er the land, 
And for free trade and sailors' rights, 

Was then the great demand. 
The American troops in the same year, 

Under Harrison ; (W. H. Harrison.) 
Over the Indians at Tippecanoe, 

A telling victory won. (Nov. 7.) 

June nineteenth, eighteen and twevle, 

Our Congress, war declared ; 
England and our country, both, 

For this war had prepared . 
General Brock with his command, 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1089. 

Moved down from Canada, 
Reinforced by Indians, 

Under Tecuraseh. 
And Hull the American general, 

At Detroit had command ; 
And he being very cowardly, 

A battle would not stand. 
Sixteenth of August, General Brock, 

Before Detroit appeared ; 
And Hull surrendered then to Brock, 

He was so badly scared. 
The British took the garrison, 

And all of Michigan ; 
The Americans were weakened much, 

By losing this command. 
Brock, October, thirteenth, 

At Queenstown lost his life ; (Ca. ) 

And all the Americans were lost, 

That took part in the strife. 
General Van Rensselaer, 

Lost one thousand men ; 
As reinforcements would not come, 

Their foes soon captured them. 
Van Rensselaer's troops on New York shore, 

Would not cross to the fight. 
They claimed to take them from the state, 



1804.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 89 

Alexander Hamilton, 

Was killed by Aaron Burr ; 
In all things that concerned them both, 

Great enemies they were. 
At Weekawken, New York state, 

In eighteen hundred and four ; 
This great statesman lost his lite, 

A loss much to deplore. 
To cause rebellion alter this, 

Burr tried his very best ; 
With Blennerhasset as his Aid, 

Working in the west. 
Arrested and for treason tried, 

Eighteen and seven, was Burr ; 
Although acquitted, was despised, 

And shunned most everywhere. 
Tripoli war against U. S, 

Declared eighteen and one ; 
But she was quickly brought to terms, 

By President Jefferson. 
France and England in their war, 

Both on our commerce preyed ; 
They took our ships and seaman too, 

Thus injuring foreign trade. 
The English navy was increased, 

By working on this plan ; 



90 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1807. 

Declaring, once an Englishman, 

Always, an Englishman. 
They everyone of English birth, 

Into their service pressed, 
And often born Americans 

Were taken with the rest. 
A British ship, the Leopard, 

Took the American, Chesapeake, 
She being quite an easy prey, 

Both unprepared and weak. 
Though England disavowed the act, 

No reparations made ; 
An embargo on American ships, 

Was by Congress laid. 
Thomas Jefferson's second term, 

Eighteen hundred and nine expired, 
From this high place to private life, 

He thereupon retired. 
The Columbia river, seventeen ninety-two, 

Discovered by Captain Gray ; 
In seventeen hundred and ninety. six, 

Admission of Tennesee. 



13.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

He knew the ship and crew he had, 

Were unprepared and weak. 
The British Shannon was the ship, 

With him to he engaged : 
A fight between these vesstds soon, 

With terrible fury raged. 
" Don't give up the ship ! " these words 

The wounded Lawrence cried : 
The ship was lost, and in tour days, 

The wounded hero died. 
He, in February, the Peacock sunk, 

Off South American coast, 
Of all the Americans had lost, 

He was lamented most. 
James Lawrence, for America, 

Had naval glory won; 
But died at quite an early age, 

Not yet quite thirty-one. 
Four hundred whites were massacred, 

In eighteen and thirteen. 
By Alabama Indians, 

'i his was at Fort Mimras. 
In Alabama Jaskson fought, 

In eighteen and fourteen; 
A thousand Creeks he overthew, 

At the battle of Horse Shoe Bend. 
On the Tallapoosa River, is 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1813. 

Where this fight occured; 
And after that by Indians, 

Was General Jackson feared. 
British Admiral Cockburn, now 

Along the middle coast; 
Of all the damage that was done, 

His navy did the most. 



CHAPTER LVIII. 



CniPi'KW\ — Fore Erie, Ca. on Niagara River. 

General Brown, July third, 

Captured Port Erie; 
And then with Scott in the advance; 

Moved on to Chippewa. 
The British ready there intrenched, 

To receive them lay; 
These armies on July fifth, 

In battle were engaged. 
And till the British troops gave way, 

The battle fiercely raged. 
In this battle Winfield Scott. 

Was a Bragadier; 
And for his deeds of heroism, 

Was noted everwhere. 



1814.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 99 

lundy's lane, n. y. 

Was fought Jul} 7 twenty-fifth, 

The battle of Lundy's Lane; 
In this battle Winfield Scott, 

Proved his skill again 
Major Jessup gained their rear, 

With his Americans; 
And General Biall and his suite, 

Fell into Jessup's hands. 
Scott fought the British until night, 

Determined not to yield; 
Then Ripley with his tried brigade, 

Came rushing on the field ; 
And Col. Miller being asked 

To take a battery, 
Said "I'll try, sir," and that he did, 

Most triumphantly. 
The English being worsted, now, 

At mid-night stole away ; 
'Twas the hardest battle ever fought, 

In proud America. 
Eight hundred and seventy-eight were lost 

By the enemy ; 
The American loss was not so great — 

Seven hundred and forty-three. 
Some three thousand Americans, 



100 HISTORY OF THE UK1TED STATES. [1 

Were all that Scott had there; 
While forty-five hundred English troops. 

Took part in the affair. 
Commodore McDonough, September 10th. 

At the battle of Lake Ohamplain, 
Over Downie's British fleet, 

Did a victory gain. 
Prevost with twelve thousand men, 

Tried to cross the Saranac, 
But by the Americans, at Plattsburg, 

They were beaten back. 
Brown's army at Fort Erie lay. 

Moved there from Lundy's Lane ; 
The British there hud sei^e to it, 

But were repulsed again. 
The British lost one thousand men, 

And then had to retreat, 
The Americans in this campaign, 

In success were complete. 
Late in August, General Ross 

Reached and burned Washington ; 
The President and Cabinet, 

Had from the city gone. 
The British on to Baltimore, 

From Washington then sailed, 
They attacked it September twelvth, 

But Ross being killed, they failed. 



1814.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 101 

CHAPTER LIX. 



Hatctfoud, Conn., Convention — Ghent — Belgium- 
Tee Wau Ends. 

TwaR on December the fifteenth, 

That all New England States, 
In convention then at Hartford held, 

*Had their delegates. 
In session for almost three weeks, 

With closed doors they remained, 
But by their project they soon found, 

That nothing could be gained. 
This act, by all who favored war, 

Was branded with odium ; 
The term, "A Hartford Federalist," 

Then a a reproach became. 
December twenty-fourth, at Ghent, 

A treaty of peace was signed 
Both countries toward peaceful terms, 

Sometime had been inclined. 

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, LA. 

'Twas on January eighth, 

Eighteen and fifteen, 
That Jackson over British troops, 

Won the battle of New Orleans. 



102 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1815. 

Major-General Pakenhara, 

Of the English had command, 
And moved on General Jackson's works, 

Just suiting Jackson's plans. 
Jackson had six thousand men, 

And fought twice that, or more ; 
Such a decisive victory, 

Was never won before. 
Jackson told his men to see, 

That every shot would tell, 
A charge was led by Pakenham, 

And Pakenham then fell. 
This military glory won, 

By Jackson and his men ; 
Before they won this victory, 

The war was at an end. 
The British in this battle lost, 

About two thousand men, 
While Jackson's loss was very light, — 

He only lost thirteen. 
A hundred and twenty-seven million dollars, 

To that the war debt grew ; 
But it was paid in twenty years, 

From a light revenue. 
And all European powers now, 

For us had great respect ; 



1817.1 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATfiS. 103 

To stop impressment on the seas, 

It had it's good effects. 
The raw American troops had whipped 

The veterans of Wellington ; 
But trade was mined, and commerce, too, 

And all the specie gone. 
Plans to gain prosperity, 

The people now contrived, 
And with their work and confidence, 

Business soon revived. 



CHAPTER LX. 



jNIonkoe's Administration. 

Monroe, seventeen and fifty-nine, 

Was in Virginia born ; 
And his long life of purity, 

Was what no one could scorn. 
Monroe had as a soldier served 

In the Revolution war; 
Had served in both the Congress halls, — 

Was Virginia's governor. 
James Monroe, as President, 

Succeeded Madison, 
With Tompkins as Vice-President, 



104 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1817. 

Well were his duties done. 
Eighteen hundred and seventeen, 

Was his inaugural date ; 
And Adams, of Massachusetts, was 

His Secretary of State. 
From Wheeling, Virginia, a national road 

Was built to Cumberland ; 
A bill passed to build the Erie canal, 

A project very grand. 



CHAPTER LXI. 



Semi -to le War— Missouri Compromise. 

The Seminoles, a powerful tribe 

Of Georgia Indians, 
Defied the force of General Gaines, 

Defeating all his plans. 
General Jackson drove them out, 

In eighteen and eighteen ; 
By invading the territory of Spain, 

He went into extremes. 
Our government, for five million dollars. 

Gave Texas up to Spam ; 
Spain ceded Florida to U. S., 

In eighteen and nineteen, 



1822.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STdTKS. 105 

Mississippi became a State, 

Eighteen and seventeen ; 
Alabama in eighteen, 

Eighteen and nineteen, Maine, 
Massachusetts admitted eighteen twenty, 

Missouri in twenty-one — 
Missouri's admission as a State, 

By compromise was done. 
Clay's Missouri Compromise, 

Gave slavery to that State ; 
But slavery north of 36 c 30 miu. (n. lat.) 

It would not tolerate. 



CHAPTER LX1I. 



Monroe's Second Tekm. 



For a second term, was James Monroe, 

Elected President ; 
Van Buren and Benton their first terms 

Were to Congress sent. 
Monroe declared European powers, 

Had no authority, 
To come into America, 

And plant their colonies. (His doctrine.) 
Some South American provinces, 



106 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. [ 1825. 

Then fought for liberties, 
And by the doctrine of Monroe, 

They had his sympathies. 
Lafayette, on a visit to this land, 

Eighteen and twenty-four, 
Wept at the tomb of Washington. 

Who was on earth no more. 
Four candidates were in the field, 

For the Presidency, 
And neither of the nominees, 

Had a majority. 



CHAPTER LXII I. 



Adams' Administration, 1825-29— JonN C. Calhoun, 

OF S. C, VlCE-PniSIDKNT. 

To the House of Representatives, 

This election went, 
And Adams being the only Whig, 

It made him President. 
And Calhoun as Vice-President, 

Suited all first rate, 
And Henry Clay, of Kentucky, 

Was the Secretory of State. 
In eighteen hundred and twenty-six, 



1829. ] HISTORY OF THE UMTED STATES. 107 

On the fourth day of July, 
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 

Old age caused both to die. 
The Protective Tariff Bill, 

As passed in twenty-eight, , 
Of this Bill the President, 

Was leading advocate. 



CHAPTER LXIV. 



Andrew Jackson's Administration, 1829-37 

Jackson in South Carolina was born, 

Seventeen and sixty-seven, 
Although to prove him elsewhere born, 

Have different authors striven. 
Rash and reckless in his way, 

And quite immoral, too, 
But in all places of high trust, 

They always found him true. 
He was converted, after awhile, 

And joined the Methodists ; 
A Nation's truer patriot, 

Never did exist. 
To elect him President, 

Were democrats inclined, 



108 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1837 



By beating Adams, was inaugurated, 

Eighteen and twenty-nine. 
Calhoun was his Vice-President, 

Anti-tariff advocate. 
Martin Van Buren, of New York, 

Was Secretary of State. 
Seven hundred anti-democrats, 

From office were removed ; 
Their places filled with democrats, 

His radicalism proved. 
The Asiatic cholera, 

O'er the country swept, 
Over the destruction of mankind, 

The mournful Nation wept. 
The Blackhawk war in the northwest, 

Broke out in thirty-two ; 
The Sacs and Foxes had sold their land, 

Which they still laid claim to. 
These Indians claimed they had a right, 

To still live on this land, 
Troops drove them off, and Blackhawk 

Fell into the soldiers' hands. 



1837.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 10!) 

CHAPTER LXV. 

The Florida Wah. 

The Florida war, in thirty-five, 

Out of an attempt it grew, 
To have the Seminoles leave their land, 

Which they refused to do. 
The government's rights to move them off, 

These Indians now denied ; 
And Osceola, the great head chief, 

Was imprisoned, and died 
Against the whites these Indians, 

Now began to plot, 
And General Thompson, at Fort King, 

Was by the Indians shot. 
One hundred men, near Wahoo Swamp, 

Under Major Dade, — 
All but four of them were killed, 

By an Indian ambuscade, 
But by Colonel Taylor, in thirty-seven, 

They were beaten and dismayed, 
In a battle at O-kee-cho-bee fought, 

Near the Everglades. 
As thev were fighting for their rights, 

Hard they were to subdue, 
Continuing to molest the whites, 

Until forty-two. 



110 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1832. 

CHAPTER LXVI. 

NULLIFIERS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

South Carolina's Nullification Act, 

Brought forth in thirty-two, 
Declared they rather would secede, 

Than pay a revenue. 
But President Jackson, in his wrath, 

By the eternal swore, 
That he would send troops to that State, 

If they resisted more. 
Stepped forward now, our Henry Clay, 

Whom we so highly prize, 
And caused a settlement of this, 

By a compromise. 
Congress passed U. S. Bank Bill, 

It's charter to renew ; 
But President Jackson vetoed it, 

Eighteen and thirty-two. 



CHAPTER LXVII. 



Difficulties with France. 

Our commerce, in the wars of France, 
Had suffered dreadfully ; 



1834.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Ill 

Five million dollars France agreed, 

For this, to us to pay. 
This promise was by France not kept, 

The payments were not made ; 
But Jackson said, decidedly, 

The money must be paid. 
And ordered on her commerce, too, 

Reprisals to be made, 
And France, before she'd go to war, 

This debt quite promptly paid. 
Died, James Monroe, July the 4th, 

Eighteen and thirty-one y. 
In the war of seventy-six, (1776) 

He had distinction won. 
In eighteen hundred and thirty-six, 

Died James Madison ; 
The same year admitted States, 

Arkansas and Michigan. (In '37) 



CHAPTER LXVI1I. 



Van Buken's Administration— R M. Johnson, of 
Kentucky, Vice-President. 

Van Buren became President, 
Eighteen and thirty-seven ; 
To Colonel Johnson, by the Senate, 



112 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. \ 1887. 

Vice-Presidency was given. 
This President, elected by 

The democracy, (McLeon, Sec. of State.) 
Tried his best to carry out, 

Jackson's policy. 
Was born at Kinderhook, New York, 

Seventeen and eighty-two ; 
In all things that he undertook, 

He very well could do. 
He was admitted to the bar, 

When he was twenty- one ; 
In the New York Senate, 1812, 

Was his career begun. 
Elected governor of New York, 

Eighteen and twenty-eight, 
Jackson appointed him next year, 

Secretary of State. 
Scarcely was Van Buren in 

The Presidential chair, 
When money matters grew to be, 

Quit a sad affair. 
The banks had issued notes beyond, 

Their paying abilities, 
And failures happened every day, 

Which killed prosperity. 
This order, " The Specie Circular,'* 

To make times worse did aid ; 



1841.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 11! 

Government monies it required, 

In specie to be paid. 
Sub-Treasury Bill in forty passed, 

Made the sub-treasurers, 
In different cities where they kept, 

Give good securities. 
Time went on, and people worked, 

And different plans contrived ; 
Before Van Buren's time was out, 

Was business paralyzed. 
In thirty-seven, some Loyalists 

Crossed from Canada, 
And destroyed an American steamboat, 

On the Niagara. 



CHAPTER LXIX. 



William Henry Harbison, of Ohio. 

A Whig now took Van Buren's place, 

Eighteen and^forty-one, 
The brave hero of Tippecanoe, 

General Harrison. 
John Tyler was Vice-President, (Of Va.) 

And opposed the Government Bank ; 
He also was a States Rights man, 

Of the highest rank. 



114 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. \ 1841. 

The Whigs now had a President, 

On whom could be re!ied ; 
But after serving just one month, 

On April fourth he died. 
John Tyler as the President, 

They now inaugurate, 
And Daniel Webster he still kept. 

As Secretary of State. 
The first Bill now by Congress passed, 

Was the United States Bank, 
But President Tyler vetoed it, 

Which made them feel quite blank. 
His Cabinet, save one, resigned, 

It so indignant grew; 
But Daniel Webster kept his place, 

An especial work to do. 
England and our government, 

Eighteen and forty-two, — 
About their claims both threatened war, 

But found that would not do. 
Lord Ashburton and Webster fixed, 

The line which yet remains; 
The line which caused the trouble, was 

Between Brunswick and Maine. 



1841.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 115 

CHAPTER LXX. 



Dork's Rebellion, in Rhode Island. 

Dorr's Rebellion, which occurred, 

Eighteen and forty-two, — 
Rhode Island's constitution was, 

The cause from which it grew. 
Some anti-renters in New York, 

On Van Rensselaer's land, 
Would not pay their legal rent, 

But a- rebellion planned. 
They tarred and feathered some who paid, 

And killed some officers, 
Who were trying to arrest them, 

For their conspiracies. 
From forty until forty-six, 

They still kept up the strife; 
By trial in court, they were condemned, 

And some imprisoned for life. 
But Governor Young, in forty-seven, 

To pardon them saw fit, 
And some say that these troubles are, 

By no means settled yet. 



116 HISTORY OF THE L'XITED STATES. [1840. 

CHAPTER LXXL 

Mormons in Illinois and Missouri. 

Some Mormons went to Illinois, 

And settled at Nauvoo, 
And in forty they began to show, 

What they desired to do. 
They at that place began to build, 

A temple strong and high ; 
Also the laws of Illinois, 

Began they to defy. 
They had been from Missouri driven, 

Just a short time before, 
And told the high authorities, 

That they'd be driven no more. 
The worst part of their doctrine was, 

They taught polygamy ; 
They claimed a man could take of wives, 

A plurality. 
In forty- four, the Mormons did, 

Begin to kill and rob ; 
Joe Smith, at Carthage, then in jail, (Mo.) 

Was killed there by a mob. 
They sold Nauvoo and moved away, 

With all that they could take, 
To the far West they made their way, 



SS44.1 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 117 

And settled at Salt Lake. 
Was admitted in forty-five, 

To the Union, Florida; 
The same act in forty- six, 

Admitted Iowa. 
Texas bad in thirty-six, 

Her independence won ; 
And one of the United States, 

She wanted to become. 
The Whigs, who are in power now, 

Are opposed to it, 
But the democrats, in forty-five, 

Have power, and her admit. 
The Rio Grande was the line, 

Of boundary Texas claimed ; 
But it only to the Nueces reached, 

Mexico maintained. 



CHAPTER LXX1I. 



Polk's Administration. 



The democrats, for President, 

Ran Polk, of Tennesee, 
Who beat the Whigs' Kentucky man,- 

That man was Henry Clay. 



118 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1845. 

Inauguration of James K. Polk, 

Eighteen and forty-five ; 
To push war into Mexico, 

That feeling he revived. 
George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, 

Was his Vice-President, 
That Mexico must yield to them, 

This election meant. 
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, 

Was Secretary of State ; 
Ex-President Jackson died that year, 

At the age of seventy-eight. 
To the Rio Grande with his troops, 

Was General Taylor sent ; 
The invasion of Texas, by Mexicans, 

He was to prevent. 
He meets six thousand Mexicans, 

On Palo Alto plains, 
And over General Arista, 

He here a victory gains. 
This victory, won in forty-six, 

On the eighth of May, 
Taylor's twenty-three hundred men, 

Fought most gallantly. 
He, at Resaca De la Pal ma, beat, 

The Mexicans next day, 



1846.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 119 

Who across the Rio Grande fled, 

In terror and dismay. 
General La Vega one thousand lost, 

Of his Mexicans, 
And Taylor one hundred and twenty-two, 

Of his Americans. 
Taylor, September twenty-fourth, 

Captured Monterey ; 
Against great odds, and thro' thick walls, 

His army fought its way. 
Taylor had six thousand men, 

When he this victory won, 
And beat ten thousand Mexicans, 

This city's garrison. 
On February twenty-third, 

Eighteen and forty-seven, 
From Buena Vista, with his troops, 

Was Santa Anna driven. 
"A little more grape, Captain Bragg," 

Here General Taylor said ; 
Bragg opened with his battery, 

And sad destruction made. 
This light commenced at early dawn, 

And lasted all that clay ; 
Taylor's forty-six hundred men, 

Fought most splendidly. 



120 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. | 1846. 

Santa Anna, late at night, 

Slyly stole away ; 
Over two thousand Mexicans, 

Were gained this victory. 
Seven hundred and forty-six, 

Lost the Americans ; 
Two thousand Santa Anna lost, 

Of his Mexicans. 

COLONEL KEARNEY. 

From Leavenworth, in forty-six, 

He obeyed orders to go, 
With a thousand men, nine hundred miles 

Into New Mexico. (To Santa Fe.) 

On to California, Kearney was 

To go and operate, 
But Stockton and Fremont conquered it, 

And Kearney was too hite. 
Fremont was sent in forty-two, 

By the government, to explore 
In the Rocky Mountains, where he went ; 

No man could have done more. 
He through the mountain passes found, 

A route to Oregon ; 
By Fremont and his sixty men, 

Were works of wonder done. 



1847.1 HISTORY OF THE VXFTED STATES. 121 

GENERAL SCOTT. 

General Scott took Taylor's place, 

Since his last victory, 
And kept the armies on the move, 

Very constantly. 
About twelve hundred IT. S. troops, — 

General Scott's command, 
Took with the city of Vera Cruz, 

Five thousand Mexicans. 
This fortress fell in forty-seven, 

March, twenty-seventh day ; 
'Tis the strongest fortress, save Quebec, 

In all America. 



CHAPTER LXXIII. 



Battle of Ci.kuo Got. do. 



At Cerro Gordo with his troops, 

Santa Anna lay ; 
Eighteenth of April, General Scott, 

Beat this force away. 
The Mexicans lost four thousand men, 

Including five Generals ; 
Scott had worked from Vera Cruz, 

Without intervals. 



122 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. [1847. 

CAPTURE OF THE CAPITAL. 

Scott's army, on September eighth, 

Assaulted Mexico ; 
Scott knew where he would lead his men, 

They willingly would go. 
The fighting lasted for five days, 

And Scott the victor proved ; 
Then he with his ten thousand men, 

Into the city moved. 
Thirty thousand Mexicans, 

Here were put to flight, 
And seven thousand of them, too, 

Were lost in this hot fight. 
Scott lost one thousand and sixteen, 

His men quite well behaved ; 
Then o'er the city of Mexico, 

Our flag in triumph waved. 
At Guadalupe Hidalgo was, 

Signed the treaty of peace, 
February second, forty-eight, 

The Mexican war was ceased. 
The U.S. had gained in this war, 

A vast amount, 'tis true — 
California and New Mexico, 

And part of Texas, too. 



1848.) HISTORY OF THE UMTED Sm TKS . 123 

TERMS OF PEACE. 

Fifteen million dollars, is 

Given to Mexico, (By treaty.) 

ilmty-hve hundred thousand of this, 

Our government they owe. 
On July fourth, in forty-eight, 

These countries peace proclaimed. 
I he United States had in this war, 

Much territory gained. 
Ex-President Quincy Adams died, 

Eighteen and forty-eio-ht. 
Wisconsin admitted the'same year, 

io the Union as a State. 
Eighteen forty-six the Wilmot Proviso- 
Wilmot introduced a Bill, 

Slavery to prevent, 
In territory to be acquired, 

By the government, 
This Proviso was produced, 
By David Wilmot's skill, 
But Congress, by a party vote, 

billed to pass this Bill. 
Gold was in California found, 

Eighteen and forty-eight, 
And thousands to this ffeld'of <r \ d 
Began to emigrate. 



124 HISTORY OF THE UNITED SIXTHS. [1848. 

CHAPTER LXXIV. 

Prestdextial Campaign— Zackary Taylor— 
Mjllarb Fillmore. 

Free Soilers for the Presidency, 

.Martin Van Buren ran ; 
The democrats run Lewis Cass, 

Senator from Michigan. 
Taylor was eleeted President, 

By the Whigs, in forty-eight, 
And with him, as Vice-President, 

Fillmore, of New York State. 

TAYLOR'S ADMINISTRATION— 1849. 

Taylor was in Virginia born, 

Seventeen and eighty-four, 
And his career up to this time, 

We have seen before. 
And Millard Fillmore in New York, 

Was in eighteen hundred born ; 
He had learned the carder's trade, 

To work in wool and yarn. 
As a lawyer and congressman, 

He was quite prominent, 
And he at General Taylor's death, 

Became the President. 



1848.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 125 

Taylor chose, as Secretary of State, 

Clayton, of Delaware. 
He the first Secretary had, 

Of the Interior. 
James K. Polk left public life, 

To return no more ; 
He died at Nashville, the next year, 

At the age of fifty-four. 
For admission California asked, 

And that as a free State ; 
Then in Congress, over this, 

Ensued a hot debate. 



CHAPTER LXXV. 



The Omnibus Bill. 

Tins year — fifty — Henry Clay, 

The Omnibus Bill presents ; 
His measures for a compromise, 

All hostile work prevents. 
1st. Division of Texas. 
The six provisions of this Bill, 

To reconciliate ; 
2nd That California should, 

Come in as a free State. 
3rd. That the territories of Utah, 



126 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [186S 

And New Mexico, 
Be formed, and slaver) 7 not to have, 

Any proviso. 
4th. That Texas should give up its claim 

On New Mexico; 
Ten million dollars for this act, 

Was to her to go. 
5th & 6th. In the District of Columbia, 

In slaves they might trade, 
And for recovering fugitives, (Slaves.) 

A more strict law be made. 
July the 9th, our honored chief, 

President Taylor died ; 
But his successor was a man, 

On whom could be relied. 
California came in now, 

Admitted a free State ; 
Then the slavery question everywhere, 

They tried to agitate. 

Cuban expedition on lopez. 
Lopez, with his six hundred men, 

To annex Cuba sailed ; 
But being by no one recognized, 

His expedition failed. 
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, 

Both died in fifty-two ; 



1853.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Both to their country and their friends, 

Always had been true. 
The Whigs ran General Winfield Scott, 

Eor the Presidency ; 
But the democrats gave Franklin Pierce, 

A large majority. 



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CHAPTER LXXVI. 



Pierce, op N. H.— King, of Alabama. 

Pierce was in New Hampshire born, 

In seventeen hundred and four; 
He had been a Congressman, 

General and Senator 
Inauguration of General Pierce, 

Eighteen and fifty-three, (March 4th.) 

And William King, of Alabama, 

Got the Vice-Presidency. 
And William L. Marcv, of New York, 

Was Secretary of State ; 
And a crystal palace in New York, 

Was finished about this date. 
The Kansas and Nebraska Bill, 

Produced in fifty -three, 
Advocated the doctrine of 



128 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. \ 1858. 

Squatter sovereignity, (i. e.) 
These territories be admitted, (as States) 

Just as their votes might be, 
Slave or free, they could decide, 

By a majority. 
Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, 

Democratic Senator, — 
'Twas he who introduced this Bill, 

Which passed in fifty-four. 
Pro and anti slavery men, 

In Kansas now fell out, 
And each, the other, with armed force, 

And violence tried to rout. 



CHAPTER LXXVII. 



James Buchanan's Administration — 1857-61. 

Buchanan was in Pennsylvania born, 

Seventeen and ninety one, 
In the legislature of that State, 

Was his career begun. 
He to Congress went in twenty-one, 

Where he served ten years, 
And gained great popularity, 

Almost everywhere. 



1S58.1 BISTORT OF THE UNITED STATES. 129 

He was Jackson's minister to Russia, 

Had served in the U. S. Senate, 
And was appointed by President Polk, 

As Secretary of State. 
He to Great Britain as minister, 

By President Pierce was sent; 
And by Democrats in fifty-six, 

Was ejected President. 
John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, 

Was his Vice President; 
And when the South rebellion raised, 

Breckinridge with it went. 
A great revolution in nffairs, 

In his term prevailed; 
Banks suspended, factories closed, 

And many merchants failed. 



CHAPTER LXXVIII. 



Mormons — Paraguay— S. A.— Japanese Treaty. 

Twenty-five hundred men were sent, 

West to enforce the law, 
As it was openly defied, 

By Mormons in Utah. 
In fifty-eight Buchanan sent, 



130 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STdTES. ["1861. 

A fleet to Paraguay; (S. A.) 

To settle a difficulty, which, 

Was done without delay. 
Japanese treaty was delivered, 

To the U. S. in sixty; 
By seventeen persons of some note — 

The Japanese Embassy. 
Oregon in fifty-nine, 

Minnesota in fifty eight; 
And Kansas admitted in sixty-one, 

Each one as a free state. 
The court decided in fifty-seven, 

That negroes could not be, 
Citizens of the United States, 

Whether slaves or free. 
Judge Taney this decision gave. 

In the Dred Scott case; 
And great excitement over it, 

Immediately took place. 



CHAPTER LXXIX. 



John Brown. 



Old John Brown in fifty-nine, 
Tried to free the slaves; 



I860.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 131 

He Harper's Ferry, Virginia, took, 

Having one and twenty braves. 
This insurrection was put down, 

By United States marines, 
Who captured seven, including Brown, 

Besides they killed thirteen. 
By Virginia's state authorities, 

Were all prisoners hung; 
And the song entittled "Old John Brown/' 

Is often yet heard sung. 



CHAPTER LXXX. 



Presidential Campaign of 1860. 

Four Presidential candidates, 

Were in sixty in the field; 
The South declaring, to northern men, 

That they would never yield. 
Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, 

And Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine; 
Elected by republicans, 

President and Vice President became. 
The democrats ran Douglass, of Illinois, 

And Breckenridge, of Kentucky; 
And the constitution unionists, 



132 HISTORY OF THE VXITED ST:lTEs. 

John Bell, of Tennessee. 

THE GREAT REBELLION. 

South Carolina did secede, 

Twentieth of December; 
This act was upheld at the south, 

Nearly everywhere. 
And by February, sixty-one, 

Six more states had rebelled; 
Giving rebellion such a start, 

That it could not be quelled. 
These were the others that rebelled, 

Mississippi and Florida; 
Louisiana and Alabama, 

Texas and Georgia. 

LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION. 

Lincoln, eighteen hundred and nine, 

Was in Kentucky born; 
And spent the boyhood of his life, 

Working on a farm. 
To the Legislature of Illinois, 
He several terms was sent; 
And from that state in forty-six, 

He to Congress went. 
He William H. Seward, of New York 

Made Secretary of State; 
As Secretary of the Treasury, 



I860. 



1861.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 133 

He appointed S. P. Chase. (of Ohio.) 
Secretary of the Nav} r , Gideon Wells, 

Of War, Simon Cameron, 
Who gave his place in sixty- two, 

To Edwin M. Stanton. 



CHAPTER LXXXL 



O Tins Dreadful War! 



Fort Pnmpter was assailed by Beauregard, 

And held by Anderson; 
By seventy-nine brave union men, 

Was splendid fighting done. 
To the enemy these union men, 

Let Fort Sumpter fall; (April 13) 

For 75,000 thee months men, 

Lincoln made a call. (April 15) 



CHAPTER LXXXIL 



Montgomery Convention. 

Delegates from rebellious states, 
February the 4th day : 



134 HISTORY OF THE UX1TE1) STATES. [1861. 

At Montgomery, Alabama met, 

And acted without delay. 
The President this movement did, 

Nothing to prevent ; 
They made Jeff. Davis at that time, 

Confederate President. 
Confederate States of America, 

Is the name they gave ; 
And in our nation then, two flags, 

In opposition waved. 
A peace conference, February 4th. 

Met at Washington, 
And tried to settle the affair, 

But nothing could be done. 
Nearly every fort on southern soil, 

And every arsenal ; 
When secession was ordained, 

To that side soon fell. 
Of a post in Texas, General Twiggs, 

Had the chief command ; 
And treacherously surrendered it, 

Into Confederate hands. 



186L1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 335 

CHAPTER LXXX1II. 

Secession of other States. 

Virginia, April 17th. 

Joined the Confederacy ; 
Arkansas from the Union went, 

On the sixth of May. 
North Carolina rebelled, 

The twentieth of May ; 
Into rebellion, Jane the eighth, 

Also went Tennessee. 
The rebels now, their combined strength, 

Greatly estimate. 
Standing in rebellion now, 

These make eleven states. 
In April, some Massachusetts troops, 

While going through Baltimore, 
A mob attacked, killing two, 

And wounding several more. 
Missouri was by Lyon saved, 

Who since in buttle fell ; 
He near St. Louis took a camp, 

Also an arsenal. 
By claiming that she neutral stood, 

Kentucky was content ; 



136 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1861. 

But all her active help witheld, 

From the government. 
In April, into rebel hands, 

Harper's Ferry fell ; 
By Federals, Norfolk Navy Yard, 

No longer could be held. 
The rebels preparations made, 

To capture Washington ; 
And preparations for defense, 

By Lincoln were begun. 
Lincoln called for three years men, 

On the third of May ; 
These eighty-two thousand Union men, 

Were raised without delay- 
Butler's fifteen thousand men, (Gen. B. F.) 

Concentrated in May, 
At Fort Monroe a Union post, 

In south-west Virginia. 
Union General Patterson, 

With his army to Harper's Ferry moved, 
And this bold move of Patterson's, 

Determination proved. 
Colonel Wallace moved in June, 

Toward where rebels lay ; 
At Romney he dispersed a camp, 

And still moved on his way. 



1861.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 137 

In Virginia, Union troops, 

Moved with the greatest care ; 
Confederates being closely pushed, 

Fell back to Winchester. 



CHAPTER LXXXIV. 



Philippi— Hich Mountain— Beverly— Bull Run- 
Richmond, Va.— George B. McClellan— Irvin 
McDowell. 

Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 

Was at the armies head ; 
He never failed when leading troops, 

But them to victory led. 
McClellan gained a victory, 

June third at Philippi ; 
He at Rich Mountain beat the foe, 

On the eleventh of July, 
He July 12th. at Beverly, 

Six hundred prisoners takes ; 
Much territory is now lost, 

By the Confederate States. 
On July the twenty-first, 

At the battle of Bull Run ; 
The hardest fighting there occured, 



138 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [ 1861. 

That had as yet been done. 
McDowell drove the Rebels back, 

And had advantage won ; 
When Johnson reinforced Beauregard, 

By eluding Patterson. 
This delay of Patterson, 

Had a bad effect ; 
As he was sent expressly to, 

Keep this force in check. 
Beauregard's had McDowell's force, 

Within its very jaws ; 
The mettle of the Union troops, 

Honored much the cause. 
These eighteen thousand Union men, 

Twice their own number fought ; 
That Greek meets Greek, in America, 

This first great battle taught. 
McDowell lost 3,000 men, 

Being overpowered, run ; 
Beauregard twenty-five hundred lost, 

But he the victory won. 
Confederate Congress first time met, 

At Richmond, in July ; 
All opposition to their cause, 

They boldly did defy. 



1881.] BISTORT OF THE UNITED AT&T ES. 139 

CHAPTER LXXXY. 



Proceedings in Mo.— Sie^el— Lyon — Mulligan— 
Fremont. 

Governor Jackson sympathised, 

With the Confederates; 
And tried to force Missouri out, 

Of the United States. 
The Legislature firmly stood, 

And him they did defy; 
At Carthage Siegel met defeat, 

On the fifth day of July. 
Confederates twenty thousand strong, 

Under Price at Wilson Creek; (Mo.) 

General Lyon fought this force, 

Although his force was weak. 
His troops four times their number fought, 

And drove them from the field; 
But to the overwhelming foe, 

His brave men had to yield. 
This battle was on August 10th, 

And General Lyon fell; 
But Seigel took the chief command, 

And drew the troops off well. 
Twenty-six hundred Union men, 

Commanded by Mulligan; 



140 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. \ 1831. 

Prico in September captured them, 
. In Missouri, at Lexington. 
In this department in Juty, 

Fremont took command; 
And Price let a 1 Missouri fall, 

Into this General's hands. 
By Commodore Stringham, August last, 

A great success was made; 
He captured Hatteras Inlet Forts, (N. C.) 

By General Butler's aid. 
General Sherman November 7rh, 

And Commodore Dupont did; 
Capture on South Carolina cost, 

Port Royal and Hilton Head. 



CHAPTER LXXXVI. 



West Va, falls to the Union— Ball's Bluffs, Va. 
Potomac Army. 

Rosencrans September tenth, 

In Virginia routed Floyd, 
The Union took its western part, 

Which nothing could avoid. 
In October at Ball's Bluff, 

Nineteen hundred men; 



186L1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED S2WTKS. Ul 

Confederate General Evans fought, 

And he defeated them. 
In this defeat the Union troops, 

Were with terror filled; 
And Colonel Baker of California, 

In this defeat was killed. 
The Union leader was to blame, 

As was plainly shown; 
And was imprisoned for five months, 

That whs General Stone. 
One hundred and fifty thousand men, 

Were called to Washington; 
McClellan took command of them, 

He who had victory won. 
November 7th. a Union force, 

Under U. S. Grant; 
Took Belmont on the Mississippi, 

On the Missouri bank. 
By capturing Belmont, General Grant, 

Proved himself quite bold; 
But Confederate reinforcements came, 

And the place he could not hold. 
All along the southern coast, 

Was kept a close blockade; 
To keep the Union's enemies, 

From getting foreign aid. 
Lieutenant Wilkes, November 8th, 



142 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, [1863. 

Took Mason and Slidell, 
While on the British steamer, Trent, 

Into his hands they fell. 
These men Confederate Envoys were, 

To England and to France; 
For them to wage a war on ns, 

This gave a splendid chance. 
But the Union disavowed the act, 

And the prisoners were released. 
But national animosity, 

Greatly was increased. 
Union Colonel Garfield drove, 

From Kentucky state; 
On January sixty-two, 

Colonel Marshall's Confederates. 
Union General Thomas's force, 

Also did quite well; 
It gained the victory at Mill Springs, (Ky) 

Where Zoliicoffer fell. 
Commodore Foote and General Grant, 

In February, in Tennessee; 
Took Fort Heniw on the Tennessee, 

And prisoners eighty-three. 

FORT DONELSON TENN. 

On February the sixteenth, 
Grant great distinction won; 



186-?.! HISTORY OF THE TJKITED STATES. 143 

By capturing Fort Donelson, 

On the Cumberland. 
He 15,000 prisoners took, 

Foot's gun boats aiding land; 
They captured all but one brigade. 

Of this garrison. 
Buckner did surrender here, 

This fort and all these men. 
But Floyd and Pillow slipped away. 

On seeing they could not "win. 

GOLDSBOROlGH AND BURNSIDE. 

Commodore Goldsborough with his fleet, 

On North Carolina coast ; 
By the aid of General Burnside's men, 

Took the Isle of Roanoke. 
And General Burnside's men in March, 

Whom gun-boats did support ; 
Newbern, North Carolina took, 

And in April took Beaufort. 
On February the twenty-second, 

The South inaugurates ; 
Jefferson Davis President, 

Of the Confederate States. 
With Stevens as Vice President, 

He took charge of affairs ; 



144 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [18(52. 

These men at Richmond were sworn in, 

To have control six years. 
A powerful ram — an iron-clad, 

The Confederate Merrimac ; 
On the Union fleet at Fort Monroe, 

Made a fierce attack. 
But the Union Monitor iron-clad, 

Came to the conflict now ; 
And sent away the Merrimac, 

With a badly twisted prow. 
At Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th, 

Curtis with his command ; 
Beat the Confederates under Price, 

Who made a final stand. 
On Siegel's fifteen hundred men, 

Was made the first attack ; 
But these Germans, fighting four to one, 

Kept the Confederates back. 
The Union army fought three days, 

Their victory was complete; 
Confederate General McCullough fell, 

And Price had to retreat. 
The Confederates now concentrated, 

And stood a seige awhile, 
Against Foote's fleet on November 10th, 

At Mississippi Isle. 



1862.1 HISTORY OF THE VXITED STATES. 145 

General Pope with his hind force, 

Here participates ; 
And the Confederates, April 7th, 

This place evacuate. 
And Pope 8,000 prisoners took, 

Of them on their retreat ; 
And Commodore Davis 6th of June, 

At Memphis ruined their fleet. 



CHAPTER LXXXVII. 



Shiloh, or Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn. 

Johnson with seventy thousand men, 

Sixth of April at Shiloh ; 
Fell on Grant's 30,000 men, 

And struck a dreadful blow. 
Sherman and Prentiss with their commands, 

Were first upon the field ; 
They Prentiss took with most of his, 

And Sherman had to yield. 
McClernand brought up his brigades, 

With quite a good effect ; 
And Swartz' and Dresser's batteries, 

Held the foe in check. 



146 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. | 1862. 

With cannon shots and curse and yell, 

The Rebel hordes pressed on ; 
Turning the battle-field into, 

A pandemonium. v 
General Hiirlburt back aways, 

Was fighting gallantly ; 
And Sherman fell back to his lines, 

Before the enemy. 
The enemy pushed after him, 

And did their batteries plant ; 
The troops were strengthened in their work, 

For now came General Grant. 
Lew. Wallace at Crump's landing then, 

Some live miles away ; 
Did not reach the battle-field, 

Until the close of day. 
Confederate leader, Johnson, fell, 

And Beauregard took command ; 
And General Sherman in this fight, 

Was wounded in the hand. 
Now all were to the river driven, 

And solid work begun ; 
And two gun-boats come to the fray, 

The Tyler and Lexington. 
That night as dark as Erebus grew, 

And rain in torrents fell ; 



1862.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. W, 

And the suffering of the wounded were, 

Too horrible to tell. 
Now Buell's men the second day, 

Under Nelson and Crittenden ; 
And soon McCook with martial strains, 

Came leading on his men. 
These new divisions took a part, 

And all fought desperately ; 
And the battle raged with fury, till, 

The enemy gave way. 
And as they were completely whipped, 

That night they moved away ; 
Grant's forces trying to pursue them, 

Earl}'' the next day. 
Grant lost about 12,000 men, 

The enemy lost more ; 
Such a battle on this continent, 

Was never fought before. 
To Corinth, Mississippi, now, 

The enemy fell back ; 
And General Halleck followed them, 

And them he did attack. 
When he opened with his guns, 

To fight they would not wait ; 
But on May thirtieth, 

They did evacuate. 



148 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1862. 

GENERAL MITCHELL IN ALA. 

Of the Memphis and Charleston railroad, had. 

Mitchell gained command; 
The north had gained advantages, 

By water and by land. 



CHAPTER LXXXVIII. 



A naval force from Hilton Head, (S. C.) 

Took Pulaski fort; 
All knew Savannah was exposed, 

On getting this report. 
Eighteenth of April the Unionists, 

Attacked New Orleans; 
And General Butler aided here, 

With fourteen thousand men. 
Forts Jackson and Philip, below the place, 

Were its main defense, 
And Admiral Farragut on that day, 

A siege of them commenced. 
After a six day's siege, the 24th, 

Past their forts he ran; 
And with his fleet took New Orleans, 

By carrying out his plan. 
The forts surrendered, the 28th, 



1862.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 149 

To Commodore Porter's fleet; 
And Butler took charge of New Orleans, 

And the victory was complete. 
From his department on the Potomac, 

Landers the Rebels ran, 
And General Banks still lower down, 

To advance began. 
And General Shields, March 23rd, 

Battle of Winchester won; 
But McClelland's force at Washington, 

Had but little done. 



CHAPTER LXXX1X. 

Operations tn Va. 

General. Wool possession of Norfolk took, 

On the 10th of May; 
And the foes blew up the Merrimac, 

On the following day. 
McClellan started April fourth, 

Over a peninsula; 
And drove the enemy from York town, 

On the 4th of May. 
He then pursued and routed them, 

Leading his command; 



150 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [im 

May the 5th at Williamsburg', 

Where they had made a stand 
Within seven miles of Richmond now, 

McClelland's army lay; 
It reached this close proximity, 

The 23rd of May. 
One wing of McClellan's force, 

On the Chickahominy; 
Was attacked furiously, 

On the 31st of May. 
Johnston who had chief command, 

Of the Confederates near Richmond; 
In this battle of Fair Oaks, 

Received a dangerous wound. 
Here the Confederates wore repulsed, 

Eight thousand men they lost; 
And the Union army five thousand, 

Is what this battle cost. 
And General Lee on the third of June, 

Of the army took command; 
And he before McClellan's force, 

Made a final stand. 
Jackson toward Washington, 

With his army moved; 
But was at Richmond to aid Lee, 

All his actions proved. 
To be protected by gun-boats, 



1862.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 151 

McClellan bad a chance; 
And to them on the James River, 

His army did advance. 
Being protected by gun -boats, 

Could for reinforcements wait; 
The battles fought for several days, 

Were very desperate. 
First at Oak Grove, June 25th, 

Twenty sixth, at Mechanicsville; 
Savage's Station 29th, 

Twenty-seventh Gaines' Mill. 
White Oak Swamp the 30tli, 

July 1st. Malvern Hill; 
Both armies passed through the ordeal. 

With a splendid will. 



CHAPTER XC. 



Three hundred thousand men, July 1st, 

The President called for; 
And a second call on August 4th. 

Three hundred thousand more. 
Lee thought that Washington's defense, 

Could not with him cope; 



152 HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. [1802. 

As it was defended by, 

The army under Pops. 
McClellan was ordered August 3rd. 

To join his force with Pope, 
Because to save the Capital, 

There was no other hope. 
Jackson and Evvell, August ninth, 

Reached the Rapidan; 
But were at Cedar Mountain whipp'd byBanks 

And back aways they ran. 
The enemy pressed on Pope's force, 

And it they did defeat; 
Although there was hard fighting done, 

During Pope's retreat. 
Six days from August 26th, 

Till September the first day; 
On Manassas Plains the armies met, 

And fought most desperately. 
Union Generals Kearney and Stevens, fell, 

In the battle of Chant-illy; 
This is where the fight wound up, 

On the last named day. 



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1862.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED SMTfiS. 153 

CHAPTER XCI. 



Of this department, General Pope, 

Now desired relief; 
September 2d, McClellan took, 

The command in chief. 
On September the 13th day, 

At the battle of South Mountain; 
A victory over Lee, 

At that place he gained. 
Harper's Ferry's Union garrison, 

Eleven thousand men; 
Stonewall Jackson the next day, 

Captured all of them. 
If Colonel Miles who had command, 

Had fortified this place; 
He might have fought successfully, 

And been saved from disgrace. 
McClellan on the seventeenth, 

Won a victory, 
At the battle of Antietam Creek, 

Over General Lee. 
Burnside and Hooker, with their mem, 

Both were in this fight; 
And Hooker fought upon the left, 



154 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1863. 

And Burnside on the right. 
McClellan lost 12,000 men, 

Which weakened his command; 
And Lee had lost some 9,000, 

And crossed from Maryland. 
Lee found that every plan he laid, 

The Federals could defeat; 
And being worsted in this fight, 

Concluded to retreat. 
Both found that fighting in this way, 

That neither side could win; 
The Confedrrates had already lost, 

Thirty thousand men. 
Every move McClellan made, 

Was after much delay; 
But the people urged that he should move, 

His army constantly. 
On October twenty-sixth, 

He with his army moved; 
But all his movements were too slow, 

Decidedly was proved. 
On to Richmond, constantly, 

The New York Tribune cried; 
And McClellan gave p'ace November 7th, 

To General A. E. Burnside. 
Burnside attacked Fredricksburg, (Va.) 

And he the heights did gain; 



1863.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 1 

But was repulsed on the 13th, 

And lost 12,000 men. 
Confederate General E. K. Smith, 

In Kentucky had command; 
And Lexington and Frankfort, both 

Fell into his hands. (In Aug) 

Lew Wallace at Cincinnati lay, 

That city to protect; 
That Smith would move right on to it, 

All seemed to expect. 
In September, General Bragg, 

Kentucky did invade -, 
And Buell drove him from the state, 

So Bragg a failure made. 
Each General in his army had, 

One hundred thousand men ; 
And at Perryville, October 8th, 

Buell routed him. 
Buell followed after him, 

After this victory ; 
And Bragg retreated hastily, 

Back to Tennessee. 
In September Kosencrans, 

Beat Price at Iuka ; 
'T'was in Mississippi that Bosencrans, 

Gained this victory. 



L5 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1863. 

He one thousand prisoners took, 

At the battle of Iuka ; 
He drove from Corinth in October, 

Price and Van Dorn away. 
Grant and Sherman with their troops, 

Into Mississippi went, 
But the overwhelming Rebel force, 

Their success did prevent. 
They baffled Grant in his designs, 

Also drove Sherman back.; 
These men their forces then unite, 

Vicksburg to attack. 
On December thirtieth, 

General Rosencrans ; 
On Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 

With his force advanced. 
The right began there on that day, 

And raged most furiously ; 
Till the night of January third, 

Eighteen and sixty-three. 
Bragg's army now had to retreat, 

All it could do was done ; , 

And m this battle, Rosencrans, 

A telling victory won. 
The Union lost 12,000 men, 

As by the records shown ; 



1863.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 15- 

The Confederates loss was heavy too, 

But not/ exactly known. 
'Twas on January first, 

Eighteen and sixty- three ; 
That Lincoln by authority, 

Abolished slavery. 
As negroes in rebellious states, 

Had been held as slaves ; 
His Emancipation Proclamation, 

Much surprise then gave. 
General Banks, July the 8th, 

Captured Port Hudson ; 
Also with it, 6,000 men, 

Its entire garrison. 



CHAPTER XCII. 



Potomac Army. 



January twenty-sixth, 

Burnside was relieved ; 
He had filled the place most splendidly ; 

Every one believed. 
General Hooker took his place, 

And moved immediately ; 



138 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1863. 

And fought the battle of Chancellorville, 

The second and third of May. 
They wounded Stonewall Jackson there, 

His wound soon fatal proved ; 
Hooker lost 12,000 men, 

Then back a ways he moved. 
Some 10,000 men were lost, 

At lowest estimates, 
At this battle of Chancellorville, 

By the Confederates. 
In Virginia Stone man's cavalry, 

Went on a dashing raid ; 
And a dash almost to Richmond's gates, 

Was by Kilpatrick made. 
Lee now for a second time, 

Invaded Maryland ; 
And Winchester and Marti nsburg, (Va) 

Fell into his hands. 
Lee's proud and daring cavalry ; 

Rushed northward at great speed ; 
And Hooker, June the 28th, 

Gave place to General Meade. 



1863.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATUS. 159 

CHAPTER XCIII. 

Battle, Gettysburg % Pa. 

When Lee advanced to Gettysburg, 

A Pennsylvania town ; 
To concentrate his forces it, 

He necessary found. 
The fight began July the 1st, 

Continuing for three days ; 
And General Meade's brave Union force, 

With Lee's troops, havoc plays. 
By General Hancock at this place, 

Heroic work was done ; 
He in eighty by the Democrats, 

For President was run. 
Lee fell back to the Rapidan, 

Meade moved to the Rappahannock: 
This battle to the southern cause, 

Was a dreadful shock. 
Twenty-three thousand Union men, 

Is what this victory cost; 
And General Lee in this defeat, 

Forty thousand lost. 



160 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. \ 1863. 

CHAPTER XCI V. 



Arkansas post in Arkansas state, 

Held by 5,000 men; 
In January, McClernand took, 

Here did success begin. 
To open the Mississippi now, 

Was Grant's object in view: 
But without capturing Yicksburg first, 

This he could not do. 
He a victory near Port Gibson gained, 

About the first of May; 
And the foe evacuated Grand Gulf, 

Then with delay. 
At Raymond and Jackson, the middle of May, 

Were Union victories gained; 
But Vicksburg being their stronghold, 

In the enemy's hands remained. 
From Vicksburg to Champion's Hill, 

Moved General Pemberton; 
But was defeated there by Grant, 

And back to Vicksburg run. 
Grant pushed a siege of seven weeks, 

And kept the foe hemmed in; 
And took the place with Pemberton, 



1863.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 161 

And thirty thousand men. 
They wanted to capitulate, 

But Grant would not comply; 
The surrender was unconditional, 

On the 4th day of July. 
In April, Colonel Grierson, 

Leaving- Lagrange, Tennessee; 
Reached Baton Rouge, the 1st of May, 

With his cavalry. 
He 1,000 prisoners took, 

On this successful raid; 
And with Confederate property, 

He sacl destruction made. 
Amongst the emancipated slaves, 

Hid loyalty exist; 
And 50,000 of them did, 

On the Union side enlist. 
On February the twenty-seventh, 

Was the enemy's Nashville sunk; 
On the Ogeechee River by, 

The iron-clad Montauk. 
Near the guns of Fort McAllister, 

This action did resound; 
And the Weehawken from the enmey took, 

The Atlanta, in Warsaw sound. 
The western part of Virginia. did, 

To the LTnion still adhere; 



182 /[ISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1803. 

And was admitted a* a state, 

The 20th of June this year. 
Congress passed on March the 3d, 

The conscription act; 
It threatened to be unpopular, 

Which proved to be a fact. 
This act now as by Congress passed, 

The President authorized; 
To draft these men of twenty years, 

Up to forty-live. 
Three hundred thousand men in May, 

Were by draft to be obtained: 
And in New York City, from July 13th, 

To 16th, terror reigned. 
Were murders done, and damage too, 

But the city'n bold police, 
With a few adjacent regulars' aid. 

Then restored the peace. 
Tin 1 re were many men obtained by draft, 

The riot being quelled; 
And three hundred thousand volunteers, 

The thinned-out ranks much swelled. 
General Morgan late in June, 

Into Kentucky went; 
And by destroying property, 

lie made himself content. 



1803.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 103 

He New Lisbon, Ohio, reached, 

By being very sly; 
There General EFobson captured him, 

Twenty-sixth day of July. 
At Newbern North Carolina, in March, 

Was a Union victory won; 
Also one on Tar river. 

In April, at Washington. 



CHAPTER XCV. 



A naval force on April 7th, 

Dahlgrene on Charleston: (S. C.) 

And General Gilmore with his force, 

Went to his navy's aid. 
Gilmore took the batteries, 

Defending Morris Island; 
And to leave Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, 

The enemy now began. 
Rosencrans June 24th, 

From Murfreesboro moved; 
And Bragg's army from Duck River, 

He very quickly drove. 
Towards Chattanooga Tennessee, 

Bragg with his army lied; 



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And Rosencrans right after him, 

The Union army led. 
To northern Georgia General Bragg, 

Continued to retreat; 
And soon he reinforcements met, 

Commanded by Longstreet. 
Now Bragg fell on the Federal force, 

At Chickarnauga Creek, 
And Rosencrans to ii Jit this force, 

Found himself quite weak. 
On September the 19th, 

This battle was begun; 
And a portion of the Union troops, 

The second did run. 
Bragg's army pressed on Rosencrans, 

Threatening him to crush; 
And sent his right, and center back, 

1 n a perfect rush. 
These Same men had fought gallantly, 

Till noon the second day: 
But General Thomas on the left, 

Still held the foe at bay. 
But on the night of the 20th, 

He to retreat began; 
The Union army in this fight, 
Lost 17,000 men. 



1868.1 HISTORY'OF THE UNITED STATES. 165 

At Chattanooga Rosencrans, 

With liis army lay; 
And General Hooker with two corps, 

To that place made his way. 
Grant superceded Rosencrans, 

Taking chief command; 
And how to gain a victory, 

This General quickly planned, 
Hooker, Lookout Mountain took; (Nov 24) 

Ascending its steep cliffs: 
And Grant took Missionary Ridge, 

November twenty -fifth. 
Here Grant 6,000 prisoners takes, 

And captures 50 guns, 
The victory is decisive now, 

And Bragg's whole army runs. 
Burnside was at Knoxville now, 

Which Longstreet did attack ; 
On November 29th, 

But Burnside beat him back. 
That Sherman moved toward Knoxville, 

Longstreet was apprised ; 
And Longstreet on December 3d, 

The siege of Knoxville raised. 
Rosencrans sent Colonel Straight, 

To Georgia on a raid ; 



166 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1864. 

Forrest captured him in June, 

80 he a failure made. , 

Generals Price and Marmaduke, 

Early in sitxy-three ; 
In Missouri and Arkansas, were, 

Engaged quite actively. 
At Springfield, January 8th, (Mo.) 

Union Colonel Brown, 
Beat back General Marmaduke, 

Who tried to take the town. 
Helena Arkansas, July 4th. 

Its Union garrison ; 
Over Price and Marmaduke, 

A glorious victory won. 
Calls were made in sixty-lour, 

For over a million men ; 
To give strength to the Union cause, 

Whose ranks were getting thin. 
Many whose terms had now expired, 

Enlisted for three years more; 
And the Union force was larger now, 

Than it had been before. 
In February Sherman reached, 

Meridian, Mississippi ; 
Expecting there that he would meet, 

Some Union cavalry. 



HISTORY OF TETE UXITED STATES. 107 

A combined land and naval force. 

Was up Red River sent ; (Shreveport) 
To crush rebellion in that part, 

This expedition meant. (Banks com'd) 
Into Smiths hands on March 14th, 

Fort De Russy fell : 
But April 8th, Dick Taylor's force, 

Fell on Banks, pell mell. (At Sabine.) 
Reinforcements then came up, 

And the foe, soon back they beat ; 
But Banks had lost 4,000 men, 

And now had to retreat. 
The gun-boats in this fallen stream, 

Nothing had availed ; 
This cavalry it as advanced, 

Was vigorously opposed ; 
And did not reach Meridian, 

But back to Vicksburg moved. 
This move on the enemy, 

Almost a failure proved : 
But Sherman freed 6,000 slaves, 

As he to Vicksburg moved. 
General Seymour's force, 

In February in Florida ; 
Was whipped and lost 1,200 men, 

In the Battle of Olustee. 



1G8 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 1 " s ^- 

So this expedition under Banks, 

Had completely failed. 
This Louisana and Texas left, 

Somewhat in Rebel hands ; 
Was General Banks for this defeat, 

Believed of the command. 
To aid Banks against Shreveport, had, 

General Steel been sent : 
But when he heard of the defeat, 

He back to Little Rock went. 
Forrest took 500 men, 

Union city's garrison ; 
'Twas on the 24th of March, 

That he this victory won. 
He then with his 5,000 men*, 

Marched out of Tennessee, 
And was beaten at Fort Anderson, 

Kentucky, the next day. 
Held by white and colored troops, 

Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 
Forrest took this garrison, (April 12) 

And it he massacred. 
Three hundred men this post's defense, 

While being massacred ; 
The Mississippi gun-boats tried, 

To give them needed aid. 



1864.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED ST&TKS. 169 

By many people of the south, 

This bud act was approved ; 
Forrest did this butchery, 

Then on his way he moved. 
Plymouth, April the 18th, 

Confederate General Hoke, 
This post with sixteen hundred men, 

With one iron-clad he took. 
Lieutenant Gushing, a torpedo, 

Exploded under her ; 
Sinking the same vessel, the Albermarl, 

Twenty-seventh of October. 
This office was created now, 

Its honors on Grant fell ; 
He was made on March the 3d, 

Lieutenant General. 
Grant at Chattanooga, had, 

One hundred thousand men ; 
And General Sherman took his place, 

And had command of them. 
With the Potomac army, Grant, 

His headquarters made ; 
And he until the war had closed, 

With that army staid. 
He ordered that these armies move, 

Simultaneously ; 



1T0 HISTORY OF THE FXITED STATES. \ t884. 

Which they did accordingly, 
About the first of May. 



CHAPTER XCVI. 



Grant's Cxmpaign in Va. 



Battle of the Wilderness was fought, 

On 5th and 6th of May ; 
The armies in this wooded place, 

Could use no strategy. 
The constant roll of musketry, 

Told where the battle raged ; 
And all along their solid lines, 

Both armies were engaged. 
Lee lost about 10,000 men, 

Grant's loss was many more ; 
With his advantage better now, 

Than it had been before. 
To Spottsylvania Court House moved. 

Grant with his command ; 
And Lee before him at that place, 

Made a determined stand. 
They for six days from May the 7th, 

Continued there to fight ; 



1364.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 171 

Then Grant succeeded in a move, 

Which flanked Lee on the right. 
In this battle, Grant and Lee, 

Each lost 10,000 men ; 
But Grant had the advantage gained, 

For it was he that won. 
Now Lee back to Cold Harbor fell, 

Being completely whipped ; 
Into its mtrenchments with his troops, 

Quietly he slipped- 
Giant's forces on the 3d. of June, 

Cold Harbor did attack : 
But as it was well fortified, 

Lee's army beat them back. 
Lee lost about 1,000 men, 

Ten thousand lost by Grant ; 
But Grant had tried Lee everywhere, 

He never would say can't. 
And Grant was full of confidence, 

While pounding away at Lee ; 
' 'I propose to fight it out on this line, 

If it takes all summer," said he. 
Intrenched near Richmond early in June, 

Lee with his army lay ; 
And Grant moved on to Petersburg, 

On June the 15th day. 



172 HISTORY OF THE EXITED STATES. [1804. 

CHAPTER XCVII. 

Sherman's Campaign in Ga. 

The enemy 60,000 strong, 

At Dal ton Georgia, lay ; 
And Sherman's troops began to move, 

The 6th and 7th of May. 
Confederate General Johnston, here 

Had the chief command ; 
And Sherman's move against this place, 

Was already planned. 
Back to Resaca, Johnston fell, 

About the middle of May ; 
And Sherman drove him from this place, 

By lighting him two days. 
At Dallas, May the 28th, 

Johnston met defeat ; 
And to Lost Mountain with his troops, 

He now had to retreat. 
June 17th he was outflanked, 

After a three days fight'; 
The Union forces ^ettins: round, 

On his left and right. 
At Kenesaw Mountain, June 18th, 

Till 3rd day of July; 



1864.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 173 

To stand before the Unionists, 

The enemy did tiy. 
Back to Atlanta, Johnston fell, 

On July the tenth ; 
Decided to hold the place, 

It being well intrenched. 
General Hood was put in Johnston's place, 

By the Confederacy ; 
28th, 22nd, and 20th, (Jul} 7 -) 

He fought most desperately. 
Hood was pledged to hold this place, 

Regardless of its cost ; 
But was defeated these three times, 

With very heavy loss. 
Stoneman out with cavalry, (Union Gen.) 

The enemy cut him off; 
And that being done by a small force, 

Did many at him scoff". 
Hood found on September 1st, 

His army cut in two; 
And to evacuate the place, 

Was all that he could do. 
Thirty thousand Union men, 

Is what this campaign cost; 
And 40,000 southern troops. 

Hood and Johnston lost. 



174 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1804. 

CHAPTER XCVIII. 



The Alabama. 

The Alabama, an English built, 

Confederate privateer; 
Took sixty-six American ships, 

Out sailing on the seas. 
But the Kearsarge, Captain Winslow's ship, 

Giving Admiral Semmes a chance; 
Sunk the Alabama June 15th. 

Off Cherbourg Harbor, France. 
We to Virginia now return, 

And tell of the campaigns; 
Of Grant's and Lee's manceuvers there, 

Their losses and their gains. 
General Averill was repulsed, 

At Wytheville, 10th of May; 
And Sigel defeated near New Market, 

On the 15th day. 
General Butler 5th of May, 

Moved from Fort Monroe; 
But being checked by Beauregard, 

Far he did not go. 
General Hunter on Lynchburg, 

In June made an attack; 
But when within two miles of it, 



1864.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 175 

Found that be must fall back. 
Early, with 20,000 men, 

Invaded Maryland; 
And Hagerstown, July the 5th, 

Fell into bis hands. 
Wallace, on the Monocacy, (Union Gen.) 

Being too weak to win; 
July the 9th was driven back, 

And lost 1,200 men. 
The Confederates, raided in July, 

Almost to Washington; 
But General Augur drove them off, 

When they had mischief done. 
Earl}', to Pennsylvania Avent, 

Setting Chambersburg on fire; 
Beside he other damage did, 

Before he would retire. 



CHAPTER XC1X 



Sheridan on the Shenandoah, 

With 45,000 men; 
Was entrusted with this force, 

The valley to defend. 
He routed Early at Fisher's Hill, 



176 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. | 1864. 

Twenty second of September; 
As he bad done three days before, 

At the battle of Winchester. 
Octoder 19th at Cedar Creek, 

His troops were driven back; 
They were into confusion thrown, 

Ry Earley's fierce attack. 
And Sheridan at Winchester, 

Fourteen miles away; 
Heard that his men were falling- back, 

In terror and dismay. 
And knowing that no commands but his, 

These frightened troops would heed; 
He into the saddle sprang, 

And rode there at full speed. 
His trusty troops when he arrived, 

Turned simultaneously; 
And turned a most disasterous rout, 

Into a victory. 
At burning barns, and mills and stores, 

His soldiers were employed; 
He $25,000,000 worth, 

Of property destroyed. 

MINE EXPLOSION. 

July 30th at Petersburg, (Va.) 

Grant blew up a mine; 



1865.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STdTNS. 183 

O'er the Alleghanies crept. 
From Eastport, Mississippi, moved, 

Wilson's cavalrv : (in March.) 

He having 13, 000 men, 

Besides six batteries. 
He through Alabama and Georgia marched, 

On this successful raid ; 
Six thousand of the enemy, 

Were his prisioners made. 
Croxton, Tuscaloosa took, 

And Montgomery and Selma fell ; 
And on the products of the land, 

The army lived quite well. 
Wilson, Macon Georgia, reached, 

And soon peace was proclaimed ; 
And by his conduct on this raid, 

He had much glory gained. 



CHAPTER CI II. 



Capture op Charleston. 



Hardee had to Charleston gone, 
And there he had command ; 
But found before his enemies, 



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HIS TOR ) ' OF THE I '. \ ITED S />/ TKs. \ l S65. 



He dared not try to stand. 
On February the 18th, 

He with his troops retired ; 
Trying to burn the cotton there, 

And he the city tired. 
Igniting in the magazine, 

The powder that was there : 
Two hundred maimed and killed by this, 

Made it a sad affair. 
Charleston had been under tire, 

For seventy-seven weeks ; 
And the Federals get possession now, 

Great desolation speaks. 



CHAPTER CIV. 



Sheridan at I>ii>" Five Forks, 

( )n April 1st did win : 
Defeating there the enemy, 

He took 6,000 men. 
Lee's chances made untenable, 

By this last grand affair : 
Being pressed upon both flanks, 

And in the front and rear. 
Fort Steadman, March the 25th, 



(Va.) 



1S61-1 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. 181 

On December 24th, 

Was this engagement fought; • 
But the powder vessel there blown up. 

Amounted thus to naught. 
But Porter's fleet that entire day, 

On Fort Fisher fired; 
But Butler deemed the works to strong, 

And with his troops retired. 
On January the 13th. 

Eighteen and sixty-five; 
A plan to capture this strong fort, 

Porter did contrive. 
By marines and land troops, on this, 

A second assault was made; 
By Porter's fleet upon this fort, 

With General Terry's aid. 
The marines* assault upon one side, 

Was beaten disasterously; 
But the soldiers rushed into the fort, 

And gained the victory. 
Being a decisive victory, 

Because Fort Fisher fell ; 
And in a few days afterward, 

They captured Fort Caswell. 
Thus the Union troops in sixty-five, 

Had the first victory won ; 
And February the 22d, 



182 HIS TOU Y OF THE I'M TED 8 />/ TES. [ 1 805 . 

They captured Wilmington. 

Emissaries of the south, 

In northern portions lurked ; 
And in many places at the north, 

Secretly they worked. 
In New York Citv tires were built, 

Simultaneously ; 
But were extinguished everywhere, 

Almost instantly. 
- These perpetrators to escape, 

To Canada returned ; 
And ou Lake Erie two steam boats, 

Were bv these vandals burned. 



CHAPTER C1I. 



Uampigns that Ended the War. 

A move to crush rebellion now, 
Did General Grant contrive ; 

And advanced his army everywhere, 
In eighteen and sixty-five. 

Sheridan from the Shenandoah, 
With his army swept, 

And Stoneman with his cavalry, 



1864.] HISTORY OF THE U.YITED STdTflS. 179 

And Sherman's seaward inarch, to you, 
We will now relate. 

He on November the 15th, 

To Atlanta applied the torch; 
And towards Savannah, on that day, 

He witli his army marched. 
He having 60,000 troops, 

Which were infantry; 
Besides five thousand five hundred more, 

Kilpatrick's cavalry. 
Near Savannah, December 10th, 

Sherman called a halt; 
Fort McAllister on the 13th, 

Was carried by assault. 
On the night of the 20th, 

Hardee moved away, . 
And full possession Sherman took, 

Early the next day. 
On December 30th, 

The enemy under Hood; 
Advanced on Franklin, Tennessee, 

Where Scofieid's army stood. 
In the afternoon at 1 o'clock, 

Hood began this fight; 
Which lasted until he drew off. 

.Just as it was night. 
Scofield back to Nashville fell, 



180 HISTORY OF THE VX1TED STATES. [1804. 

And Hood was boasting still; 

That he would there drive Thomas back. 

And go to Louisville. 
Hood had lost 4,000 men, 

In the Franklin fight; 
And Scofield had at the same place, 

Lost 2,000, quite. 
Within three miles of Nashville now. 

Hood was compelled to halt; 
There Thomas's army lay intrenched. 

Expecting an assault. 
On December the loth, 

Against Hood. Thomas moved: 
A battle lasting for two days, 

To Hood destruction proved. 
The loss of the Confederates, 

Certainly was great: 
Six thousand prisoners, Thomas took. 

And drove Hood from the state. 
To North Carolina, we'll return, 

And tell what there was done: 
Of forts Fisher and Caswell, 

And the capture of Wilmington. 
And now a land and naval force, 

Was to take Wilmington: 
By Porter's fleet and Butler's troops, 

This was to be clone. 



1854.1 HISTORY OF THE VXITED \7>/77-X 177 

And the Federal guns were opened then, 

All along the line. 
The assaulting column pushed ahead, 

In the crater had to halt; 
And the enemy rallying from their fright, 

Repulsed this grand assault. 
Grant lost about 4,000 men, 

in this ill starred affair, 
Three hundred of the enemy. 

Were blown into the air. 
Eighteenth ol August, the Union troops, 

The Weldon Railroad took: 
Which gave Lee's chances for defense, 

A very gloomy look. 
Lee attempted desperately, 

These losses to regain; 
But being beaten everywhere, 

He found it all in vain. 
mobile, a la. 
Admiral Farragut, August 5th. 

At Mobile with his fleet; 
Fought that of the enemy, 

And it he badly beat. 
To the main-top mast of his flag ship, 

The Hartford, he was lashed; 
And Forts Morgan and Gaines, 

He with his fleet ran past. 



3 HISTORY OF THE ZfXITED STATES. 1 l«64. 

With three of their vessels he made way, 

He losing only one: 
And soon forts Gaines and Morgan fell, 

With aid on land, he won. 



CHAPTER C. 



McClellan for the presidency, 

By the Democrats was run: 
And with him for Vice President, 

George H. Penclelton. (of Ohio.) 

But Lincoln, the incumbent then, 

Gained the victory: 
Some 400,000 was, 

His majority. 
And Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, 

As the Vice President; 
To push the war on vigorously, 

This election meant. 



CHAPTER CI. 



Sherman's Math tothe Ska. 



Nevada, October, 31st, 
Was admitted as a state; 



1865.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 185 

Did General Lee attack ; 
But lost about 3,000 men ; 

Being driven back. 
The Confederate Congress, March 7th, 

Proposed to arm the slaves ; 
They thought by using means like those, 

They many men could save. 



CHAPTER CV. 

Sherman in the Carolixas. 

In February, Sherman marched, 

Through water mud and storm ; 
The duties of his last campaign, 

In this war to perform. 
He of South Carolina on the 17th, 

Took the capital ; 
And many smaller towns than this, 

Into his hands now fell. 
When he into Columbia marched, 

A conflagration spread : 
Destruction was on every side, 

Below and overhead. 
General Hampton caused the fire, 

We afterward have learned ; 
While setting tire to cotton there, 



1 86 HISTOR Y OF THE V. \ 'I TED STA TBS. 1 1 865. 

He the city burned. 
(Sherman's forces March the 11th, 

Captured Fayetteville, N. C.) 
Over Generals Johnston and Bragg, 

Aiding them Hardee ; 
Nineteenth and twentieth at Bentonsville, 

He gained a victory- 
Raleigh, April the 13th, (N. C.) 

Sherman's forces took ; 
And Johnston's chances for success, 

Doubtfully now looked. 



CHAPTER CVI. 



Shkhmak. 
He nt Goldsborough, March 21st, 

Met Scotield's forces at Newbern ; 
And Terry's column which had come. 

To him from Wilmington. 



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CHAPTER CV1I. 

Lee Routed and Captured in Va, 

Grant drove Lee from Petersburg, 

On April the 2d day ; 
By attacking all along his line, 

Most successfully. 
And Grant moved into Petersburg, 

By twilight the next day ; 
And into Richmond on that day, 

Weitzel made his way. 
Grant pushed forward Sheridan, 

With all his energy ; 
Pursuing hotly after him, 

Soon overtaking Lee. 
Lee's ragged, starved, wornout troops, 

To fight, yet showed a will ; 
But were repulsed with heavy loss, 

Not far from Deatonville. 
At Appomatox, April 9th, 

Lee's men thew down their arms ; 
Going from the batlte-field, 

To work-shops and to farms. 
Lee surrendered here to Gra it, 

Some 20,000 men : 



18S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. [1865. 

Proving that rebellion's days, 
Were nearly at an end. 



CHAPTER CVIII. 



Assassination of Lincoln— Capture of Johnston. 

Fourteenth of April, John Wilkes Booth, 

Killed the President; 
And loyal people everywhere, 

Greatly did lament. 
Done at Ford's Theatre, Washington, 

And Booth for safety fled ; 
But the soldiers soon came onto him, 

And Corbett shot him dead. 
General Canby, April loth, 

With his force took Mobile : (Ala. ) 

To his troops and Thatcher's fleet, 

The enemy had to yield. 
The evacuation of the place, 

Murray had command : 
But left about 4,000 men, 

To make a weak defense. 
Johnston, April 26th, 

With 30,000 men ; 
Being hemmed in by Sherman's force, 



1365.] HISTORY OF THE UXITED ST&TfiS. 189 

Surrendered all to him. 
And E. K. Smith's trans-Mississippi, 

Surrendered in 30 days ; (May 2tf ) 

And in Alabama Taylor's force, (Gen Dick) 

Surrendered the 4th of May. 



CHAPTER CIX. 



Inauguration of Andrew Johnson. 

Johnson, April the loth, 

Became President; 
And to the duties of that place, 

Immediately went. 
He was in Raleigh, North Carolina, born, 

In eighteen hundred and eight; 
And moving from there to Tennessee, 

Was distinguished in that state. 
From Alderman to Congressman, 

Then U. S. Senator; 
All this time Tennessee, 

To the Union did adhere. 
The army was disbanded now, 

Very peacefully; 
Going to their northern homes, 

Most triumphantly. 



190 HISTORY OF THE VX1TED STATES. [1806. 

Three hundred thousand Union lives, 

In this great war were lost; 
Besides about $6,000,000,000 dollars, 

It had the Union cost. 
The south had lost as many men, 

Besides was over run, 
By armies which in their campaigns, 

Had untold damage done. 



CHAPTER CX. 



Reconstruction. 



The Reconstruction Policy, 

Of the President; 
To give the south all former rights, 

Decidedly it meant. 
But of Congress the majorty, 

Did to this object; 
And would' not let his policy, 

Go into effect. 
Now Congress takes entire cotnrol, 

Of the rebellious states; 
But between them and the President, 

Trouble this creates. 

The war debt Jan. 1st., was 2,730,000,000. 



1867.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 191 

The XIII amendment, which freed the slaves, 

By the states being ratified; 
Eighteenth of December, become a law, 

Congress did decide. 
Johnson used his veto power, 

Most inconsistently; 
He vetoed bills by Congress passed, 

Most Persistently. 
The Tenure of Office, Civil Rights, 

And Freed men's Bureau bills; 
All were over his veto, passed, 

Congress its work fulfills. 
The XIV amendment, giving rights, 

To blacks, whites low and high ; 
A part of the constitution became, 

On the 1:8th of July. 



CHAPTER CXI. 



The French in Mexico, 63-67, 

Napoleon III, French Emperor, 

Sent troops to Mexico; 
Thinking that he easily could, 

That nation overthrow. 
The Union could not then enforce, 

The doctrine of Monroe; 



192 fflSTOR Y OF THE EXITED STATES. \ I86& 

And to tin's nation, brave but weak, 

It was a heavy blow. 
The government told that Empire, 

To draw its troops away; 
Their commander, Maximilian, 

Was the Arch Duke of Austria. 
The Mexicans this leader took, 

Afterwards very soon: 
And him they shot, in sixtv-seven, 

On the 1 9th day of June. 
The Atlantic cable, the same year, 

By Cyrus Field was laid; 
And by Europe and America, 

Good use of it is made. 
For T,200 ; 000, 

Dollars paid in gold; 
Alaska to our government, 

Was by Rsusia sold. 
An emissary in sixty -eight, 

O'er from China came; 
With their Union Minister, 

Anson Builingame. 
A treaty with our government, 

This Embassy made: 
And to the wellfare of them both, 

It has been quite an aid. 
Grant was elected President, (of 111.) 



18(58.1 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 103 

Of the United States; 
With Colfax as Vice President, (of Ind) 

Eighteen and sixty-eight. 
Elected by Republicans, 

They honor for them won; 
Seymour and Blair against these men, 

By Democrats were run. 
The Union Pacific railroad was, 

Completed in sixty-nine; 
And of all this nation's thoroughfare, 

This is the longest line. 
The XV amendment which to all, 

Suffrage guarentee's; 
A part of the Constitution became, 

Marth 30th seventy. 
Our population had increased: 

In the last decade; 
To 38,000,000, counting all, 

The census takers said. 
The Alabama damages, 

We've told the affair before; 
England had refused to pay, 

And nearly caused a war. 
But at Geneva, Switzerland. 

Arbitrators met; 
And over 16,000,000 dollars, 

Our government did get. 



1 94 HIS TOR )' OF THE I \ \ 'ITED S '/':/ Th's. 1 1 s ; I . 

The line between the United States, 



And British America; 
England and this government, 

On it could not agree. 
But the Emperor of Germany, 

They left the affair to him; 
And lie for them decided it, 

Suiting both of them. 
San Domingo now applied, 

To the President; 
To be annexed and made a state, 

But Congress did dissent. 



CHAPTER CXII. 



Chicago's Great Fire. 



At Chicago on October 8th, 

Eighteen and seventy-one; 
A terrible conflagration raged. 

By it was damage done. 
It over all Chicago's force, 

For fifty hours swayed; 
Twenty-five thousand buildings were, 

By it in ashes laid. 
This fire $200,000,000 worth, 



1872.] HISTORY OF THE UNITED STdTfiS, 105 

Of property destroyed; 
Troops, police and firemen, all, 

To stop it were employed. 
Ninth of November, seventy-two, 

A part of Boston burned; 
Into ashes, $70,000,000 worth, 

Of property was turned. 
Grant was reelected President, 

By the Republicans; 
With Wilson as Vice President, 

He carried out his plans. 
Greeley and Brown against them ran, 

That year and seventy-two; 
Grant beat the Democrats and Liberal, 

And beat them badly, too. 
The majority for Grant, 

Exceeded estimates; 
Because he carried 31, 

And Greely but 6 states. 
A company was organized, 

U. P. Railroad to build; 
With it the Credit Mobilier, 

With shame the country filled. 
This guilty scheme in seventy-three, 

In Washington occurecl; 
And some high government officers, 

As guilty ones appeared. 



19G HISTORY OF THE UX1TED STATES. [1808. 

Some Philadelphia bankers failed, 

Jay Cooke and company; 
And hurt all business enterprise, 

In the fall of seventy-three. 
Some Indians, the Modoc tribe, 

That lived in Oregon ; 
They their reservations left, 

By them was mischief done. 
By soldiers they were driven back, 

To the lava beds ; 
And Captain Jack, their noted chief, 

These hostile Modocs led. 
Jack and General Canby met, 

In the lava beds ; 
Jack said to capitulate, 

But he shot Canby dead. 
Jack was captured after this, 

And at Fort Klamath hung ; 
Third of October, seventy-three, 

In air his body swung. 
And other leaders of this band, 

Also were hanged with him ; 
And the most conspicuous next to Jack, 

Was Shack Nasty Jim. 
Cuba tried in sixty- eight, 

To free herself from Spain ; 



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And our nation sympathies, 

She very quickly gained. 
By the people of the government, 

A grand attempt was made ; 
To give the servile Cubans, 

Their greatly needed aid. 
From the U.S. port in seventy-three, 

The Virginians slipped away ; 
But the Spanish steamer, Tornado, 

Took her on her way. 
The Spaniards sailed with her to port, 

And shot part of her crew ; 
But the Union told the Spanish courts, 

That that would never do. 
They the vessel then released, 

And made apologies ; 
But Cuba has not to this day, 

Gained her liberty. 



CHAPTER CXJII. 



Sroux Wah in Minn. 



In Minnesota an Indian war, 

Occured in sixty-two ; 
And 700 whites were slain, 



19S HISTORY OF THE VX1TEI) STATES. [18(12. 

By the hostile Sioux. (Soo.) 

And many others by the Sioux, 

Were as prisoners held ; 
And to submit to outrages, 

These prisoners were compelled. 
To terrify the settlers, 

Every means was used ; 
Men were killed upon the spot, 

And women were abused. 
The war chieftains in this war, 

Whose names we do not know ; 
But Inkpadooty ranked the rest, 

Then next was Little Crow. 
But General Sibley followed them, 

And with them battles fought ; 
And with his Union volunteers, 

Five hundred of them caught. 
For depredations they had done, 

Were many of them tried ; 
And thirty-nine were guilty found, 

And on the scaffold died. 



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CHAPTER CXIV. 
Centknnial. 

July th(3 4th, in seventy-six, 

Was the centennial ; 
This national celebration was, 

At Philadelphia held. 
General Hawley of Conn. 

Was its President ; 
And from every section of the world, 

Many people went. 
Our independence was declared, 

One hundred years before ; 
And tyrant power was then defied, 

And yielded to no more. 
March the 1st in sixty-seven, 

Nebraska became a state ; 
And Colorado, March the 3d, 

At an eight years later date. 



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